[gentoo-dev] Packages needing new maintainers, redux

[Robin H. Johnson]

6 months ago, I sent a mail looking for new maintainers on a bunch of my
packages. I didn't get many takers, so here they are again. The sys-
ones are getting base-system on them, per vapier's original suggestion.

On Tue, Jul 10, 2007 at 04:49:02PM -0700, Robin H. Johnson wrote:
> Software, I picked up maintenance of autofs when the previous maintainer went
> AWOL several years ago, and ran with it because I needed AutoFS-LDAP. I don't
> have access to any AutoFS-LDAP setups anymore, and upstream has moved on. There
> is a 7Kb init.d script that badly needs complete rewriting due to upstream and
> kernel changes:
> net-fs/autofs
This is badly in need of a maintainer. if somebody wants to take the
main parts of it, I can help them with the LDAP section of it.

> Networking, Linux ethernet Bridging.
> net-misc/bridge-utils
I'll hang onto this for a bit longer, another mail to -dev coming here.

> Networking, SCTP protocol.
> net-misc/lksctp-tools
Verbump needed, has one bug outstanding. Stable candidate.

> Networking, SLIP over file descriptors.
> net-misc/vmnet
Not sent to base-system. no bugs or verbumps, stable candidate.

> Networking, VLAN management for managed switches:
> net-misc/vmpsd
Not sent to base-system. Stable candidate (actually had a pending sec
vuln that slipped thru the cracks, that i filed to security and
patched).

> Networking, admin tool for some networked printers and JetDirect-style adapter
> boxes:
> net-print/npadmin
printing herd, can you take this?

> This first batch deal with IPMI hardware. I used IPMI hardware in my last two
> jobs, but in the present one, we don't use it, and the packages do need
> maintenance with testing to make sure they actually work on the hardware.
> sys-apps/ipmitool
> sys-apps/ipmiutil
> sys-libs/freeipmi
> sys-libs/openipmi
> sys-libs/openhpi
Still all available. Have pending bugs and version bumps.

> Again hardware related. You can deploy an iSCSI solution with just iscsitarget
> and open-iscsi as a pair, but I have previously tried to test open-iscsi with a
> hardware target, and iscsitarget with some other initiator (Windows or
> Solaris).
> sys-block/iscsitarget
iscsi-target is still available. Has pending bugs.
open-iscsi and iscsi-initiator-core-tools picked up maintainers.

> Again, hardware related, with an software implementation possible.
> sys-block/aoetools
> sys-block/vblade
Still available. Pending verbump for aoetools.

> Hardware, SCSI stuff dealing with enclosures and arrays:
> sys-block/scsirastools
Still available, no pending bugs or verbumps, should get stable keywords.

>
> Hardware, SAS stuff (remote possibility I might come back for it if I get
> hardware for it):
> sys-block/smp_utils
I never got that hardware, so it's still available. No pending bugs or
verbumps.  Should get stable keywords.

> Hardware, NUMA-capable boxes:
> sys-process/numactl
Still available, no pending bugs or version bumps. Should get stable
keywords.

> Hardware, Fibre-Channel:
> sys-apps/hbaapi
> sys-block/fwdl
No bugs or verbumps, should get stable keywords.

> sys-block/qla-fc-firmware
I'll hang onto this one for now.
>
> Hardware, for tuning network cards. In new enough kernels (should be most of
> 2.6), this is obsoleted by mii-tools and ethtool:
> sys-apps/nictools
This package is dying once net-tools gets the last binaries per bug
#205727.

> Hardware, Firewire IEEE1394:
> sys-apps/fwcrv
> sys-block/endpoint
No pending bugs or bumps, stable keyword candidates.
For fwcrv, there's been a lurking endian bug for a while, but sometimes
it works, sometimes it does - suspected that it might be slightly buggy
fireware devices out there rather than the software itself.

> Software, QEMU frontend:
> app-emulation/qenv
No pending bugs or verbumps. Maybe a stable candidate. lu_zero, you
handle qemu, do you want this too?

> Hardware, programming PIC embedded microcontrollers (the herd might end up with
> these, but somebody with the hardware to use them would be nice):
> dev-embedded/icdprog
> dev-embedded/pikdev
> dev-embedded/xgpasm
Sent to dev-embedded herd.

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Robin Hugh Johnson
Gentoo Linux Developer & Infra Guy
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