[gentoo-dev] Help wanted with net-misc/frr maintenance

[gentoo-dev] Help wanted with net-misc/frr maintenance

[Jakov Smolić]

Hi all,
I was recently left as the sole maintainer of net-misc/frr and given I'm 
not actively using the package anymore it would be good if someone who 
is an active user could take over. There are several open bugs and a new 
upstream release.

I can stay as a secondary maintainer and help out (non-Gentoo developers 
are also welcome, I can proxy for you), otherwise if no one is 
interested I'll drop the package to maintainer-needed soon.

Regards,
-- 
Jakov

Re: [gentoo-dev] Help wanted with net-misc/frr maintenance

[Alarig Le Lay]

Hello Jakov,

On Wed 12 Jul 2023 10:54:47 GMT, Jakov Smolić wrote:
> Hi all,
> I was recently left as the sole maintainer of net-misc/frr and given I'm 
> not actively using the package anymore it would be good if someone who 
> is an active user could take over. There are several open bugs and a new 
> upstream release.
> 
> I can stay as a secondary maintainer and help out (non-Gentoo developers 
> are also welcome, I can proxy for you), otherwise if no one is 
> interested I'll drop the package to maintainer-needed soon.
> 
> Regards,

I’m already maintaining bird, so I could happily step in for frr as
well!

-- 
Alarig

Re: [gentoo-dev] Help wanted with net-misc/frr maintenance

[Jakov Smolić]

On 7/12/23 15:18, Alarig Le Lay wrote:
> Hello Jakov,
> 
> On Wed 12 Jul 2023 10:54:47 GMT, Jakov Smolić wrote:
>> Hi all,
>> I was recently left as the sole maintainer of net-misc/frr and given I'm
>> not actively using the package anymore it would be good if someone who
>> is an active user could take over. There are several open bugs and a new
>> upstream release.
>>
>> I can stay as a secondary maintainer and help out (non-Gentoo developers
>> are also welcome, I can proxy for you), otherwise if no one is
>> interested I'll drop the package to maintainer-needed soon.
>>
>> Regards,
> 
> I’m already maintaining bird, so I could happily step in for frr as
> well!
Great!

If you want to get started it would be good to update the package (and 
dev-util/clippy with it too) to latest version and fix some of the open 
bugs. Feel free to ping me on IRC if you run into problems or need any help.

Thanks,
> 

-- 
Jakov

Re: [gentoo-dev] Help wanted with net-misc/frr maintenance

[Jaco Kroon]

Hi Alarig,

On 2023/07/12 15:18, Alarig Le Lay wrote:
> Hello Jakov,
>
> On Wed 12 Jul 2023 10:54:47 GMT, Jakov Smolić wrote:
>> Hi all,
>> I was recently left as the sole maintainer of net-misc/frr and given I'm
>> not actively using the package anymore it would be good if someone who
>> is an active user could take over. There are several open bugs and a new
>> upstream release.
>>
>> I can stay as a secondary maintainer and help out (non-Gentoo developers
>> are also welcome, I can proxy for you), otherwise if no one is
>> interested I'll drop the package to maintainer-needed soon.
>>
>> Regards,
> I’m already maintaining bird, so I could happily step in for frr as
> well!
Happy to assist where I can.  For the most part frr "just works" for us 
though.  Also not something we like to upgrade on a frequent basis 
unless there is a specific reason to.

Kind Regards,
Jaco

Re: [gentoo-dev] Help wanted with net-misc/frr maintenance

[Christian Bricart]

Am 13.07.23 um 09:10 schrieb Jaco Kroon:
> Hi Alarig,
> 
> On 2023/07/12 15:18, Alarig Le Lay wrote:
>> Hello Jakov,
>>
>> On Wed 12 Jul 2023 10:54:47 GMT, Jakov Smolić wrote:
>>> Hi all,
>>> I was recently left as the sole maintainer of net-misc/frr and given I'm
>>> not actively using the package anymore it would be good if someone who
>>> is an active user could take over. There are several open bugs and a new
>>> upstream release.
>>>
>>> I can stay as a secondary maintainer and help out (non-Gentoo developers
>>> are also welcome, I can proxy for you), otherwise if no one is
>>> interested I'll drop the package to maintainer-needed soon.
>>>
>>> Regards,
>> I’m already maintaining bird, so I could happily step in for frr as
>> well!
> Happy to assist where I can.  For the most part frr "just works" for us 
> though.  Also not something we like to upgrade on a frequent basis 
> unless there is a specific reason to.
> 
> Kind Regards,
> Jaco
> 
> 
FYI: upstream also has a (neglected?) overlay on their site:
https://github.com/FRRouting/gentoo-overlay

Christian

Re: [gentoo-dev] Help wanted with net-misc/frr maintenance

[Alarig Le Lay]

On Wed 12 Jul 2023 22:38:00 GMT, Jakov Smolić wrote:
> Great!
> 
> If you want to get started it would be good to update the package (and 
> dev-util/clippy with it too) to latest version and fix some of the open 
> bugs. Feel free to ping me on IRC if you run into problems or need any help.
> 
> Thanks,

I bumped the version my overlay (because it’s easy) and upgraded one of
my machines:
	rr2 ~ # vtysh

	Hello, this is FRRouting (version 8.5.2-gentoo).
	Copyright 1996-2005 Kunihiro Ishiguro, et al.

I’ll let it run through the night and push tomorrow if nagios is happy.

-- 
Alarig