On Sun, Aug 23, 2026 at 1:56 PM Nicolas Goy <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hello, > > I was appointed as maintainer of webcamd, and I realize the situation is > a bit complicated on the human side of things as the original author > passed away and he was an important member of the community. I hope to > be able to respect his work moving things forward. > > > The upstream project is now unmaintained and we apply patches as port > files but this is not a good situation. > > The webcamd project is very important to FreeBSD on the desktop and I > think it deserve to be maintained properly. > > While I am quite confident in C, I am ignorent of USB stack and linux > kernel so I don't feel like I am the best person to write significant > changes to the project. But I think I can manage patches and hope the > project will stay stable. > > The project is on an unmaintained github repository and will need to be > forked. > > I would prefer to put the project outside of github and under a common > control (under a foundation organization or something). > > So I am wondering if freebsd has such umbrella where we could put the > proect. > > Best regards > > -- > Nicolas Goy
Thank you Nicolas for stepping up with continuation of the (in loving memory of) HPS's amazing work! Webcamd is _very_ important on desktop and I use it daily with my webcam as well as usb-hdmi grabber for daily videoconferences and often for streaming related events from my FreeBSD workstation. I know kernel level video drivers are being introduced, but not yet covers the current webcamd functionality, and not available in older releases such as 14. Thus it still deserves a maintenance, until maybe it is moved into kernel-level video driver (maybe not), for sure a solid repository, I hope TFF can help here :-) When in need of help with USB please ask on the mailing lists maybe we could sort things out with the community :-) What are relations to Linux kernel that you mentioned? How this can be avoided? Thank you again and have fun! :-) Tomek -- CeDeROM, SQ7MHZ, http://www.tomek.cedro.info
