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I'm willing to pick up fcron |
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Mark Dierolf |
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smark@×××.com |
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On Monday 04 October 2004 2:02 pm, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: |
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> Currently the cron packages (vixie-cron, dcron, fcron, anacron, |
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> cronbase, ???) and sys-apps/at (not actually a cron but same kinda |
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> idea) are all 'maintained' by base-system. As many of you are probably |
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> aware, base-system has lots of bugs and not many developers, so certain |
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> things tend not to receive as much attention as they might. Right now |
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> the cron packages seem to be not particularly high up the list of |
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> priorities. So... |
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> Would there be any interest in forming a 'cron' herd to take care of |
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> these packages? This would allow interested developers to join in |
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> without having to receive the several dozen bug emails per day that |
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> being on base-system entails. |
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> Member-wise, it looks like I'm now maintaining vixie-cron since I stuck |
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> my filthy paws all over it, and Ka0ttic didn't say no fast enough to |
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> avoid being suckered in as co-maintainer. Are there any people who would |
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> be interested in the other daemons? They're mostly pretty small packages |
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> (vixie is the nasty one) which don't get updated very often. |
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