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* [gentoo-dev] Packages needing new maintainers
@ 2007-07-10 23:49 Robin H. Johnson
  2007-07-11  0:16 ` Mike Frysinger
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From: Robin H. Johnson @ 2007-07-10 23:49 UTC (permalink / raw
  To: gentoo-dev

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Hi Folks,

For various reasons, I've got a couple of packages that I'm not really
very well suited to maintain going on. I added them over the course of past
jobs and university courses, but I have no further need of them, and they
really could use people that actually use them.

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

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/open-iscsi
sys-block/iscsi-initiator-core-tools
sys-block/iscsitarget

Again, hardware related, with an software implementation possible.
sys-block/aoetools
sys-block/vblade

Hardware, SCSI stuff dealing with enclosures and arrays:
sys-block/scsirastools

Hardware, SAS stuff (remote possibility I might come back for it if I get
hardware for it):
sys-block/smp_utils

Hardware, NUMA-capable boxes:
sys-process/numactl

Hardware, Fibre-Channel:
sys-apps/hbaapi
sys-block/qla-fc-firmware
sys-block/fwdl

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

Hardware, Firewire IEEE1394:
sys-apps/fwcrv
sys-block/endpoint

Hardware, flash disks:
sys-fs/mtd-utils (this was the replacement for sys-fs/mtd)

Software, QEMU frontend:
app-emulation/qenv

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

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

Networking, Linux ethernet Bridging.
net-misc/bridge-utils

Networking, SCTP protocol.
net-misc/lksctp-tools

Networking, SLIP over file descriptors.
net-misc/vmnet

Networking, VLAN management for managed switches:
net-misc/vmpsd

Networking, admin tool for some networked printers and JetDirect-style adapter
boxes:
net-print/npadmin

Networking, modelling and predictive applications:
sys-apps/tcng
net-analyzer/nam
net-analyzer/ns

-- 
Robin Hugh Johnson
Gentoo Linux Developer & Council Member
E-Mail     : robbat2@gentoo.org
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* Re: [gentoo-dev] Packages needing new maintainers
  2007-07-10 23:49 [gentoo-dev] Packages needing new maintainers Robin H. Johnson
@ 2007-07-11  0:16 ` Mike Frysinger
  2007-07-12 18:45   ` Robin H. Johnson
  2007-07-11  0:23 ` Kevin Lacquement
  2007-07-11 17:08 ` Anant Narayanan
  2 siblings, 1 reply; 5+ messages in thread
From: Mike Frysinger @ 2007-07-11  0:16 UTC (permalink / raw
  To: gentoo-dev

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On Tuesday 10 July 2007, Robin H. Johnson wrote:
> For various reasons, I've got a couple of packages that I'm not really
> very well suited to maintain going on. I added them over the course of past
> jobs and university courses, but I have no further need of them, and they
> really could use people that actually use them.

for any of the sys-* ones, you probably already have base-system listed, but 
just in case, you can add it as the herd ...

> 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

i think we should scrub mii-tools, ethtool, and nictools ... latest net-tools 
should provide all of these i believe
-mike

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* Re: [gentoo-dev] Packages needing new maintainers
  2007-07-10 23:49 [gentoo-dev] Packages needing new maintainers Robin H. Johnson
  2007-07-11  0:16 ` Mike Frysinger
@ 2007-07-11  0:23 ` Kevin Lacquement
  2007-07-11 17:08 ` Anant Narayanan
  2 siblings, 0 replies; 5+ messages in thread
From: Kevin Lacquement @ 2007-07-11  0:23 UTC (permalink / raw
  To: gentoo-dev

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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


I'll see what I can do with this one.  I won't have access to my network
for a couple weeks, but when I get back home I'll poke into it.

Kevin


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* Re: [gentoo-dev] Packages needing new maintainers
  2007-07-10 23:49 [gentoo-dev] Packages needing new maintainers Robin H. Johnson
  2007-07-11  0:16 ` Mike Frysinger
  2007-07-11  0:23 ` Kevin Lacquement
@ 2007-07-11 17:08 ` Anant Narayanan
  2 siblings, 0 replies; 5+ messages in thread
From: Anant Narayanan @ 2007-07-11 17:08 UTC (permalink / raw
  To: gentoo-dev

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Hi,

> Networking, modelling and predictive applications:
> net-analyzer/ns

I can take over ns, if no-one has any objections or pet-peeves over  
this project :)

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* Re: [gentoo-dev] Packages needing new maintainers
  2007-07-11  0:16 ` Mike Frysinger
@ 2007-07-12 18:45   ` Robin H. Johnson
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 5+ messages in thread
From: Robin H. Johnson @ 2007-07-12 18:45 UTC (permalink / raw
  To: gentoo-dev

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On Tue, Jul 10, 2007 at 08:16:09PM -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> On Tuesday 10 July 2007, Robin H. Johnson wrote:
> > For various reasons, I've got a couple of packages that I'm not really
> > very well suited to maintain going on. I added them over the course of past
> > jobs and university courses, but I have no further need of them, and they
> > really could use people that actually use them.
> for any of the sys-* ones, you probably already have base-system listed, but 
> just in case, you can add it as the herd ...
Some of them don't list base-system, because they were fringe enough
already. I'll add them to base-system if I don't find anybody else more
interested.

> > 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
> i think we should scrub mii-tools, ethtool, and nictools ... latest net-tools 
> should provide all of these i believe
How is net-tools for those arches still on 2.4 kernels?
net-tools does not contain ethtool (which is badly out of date upstream,
the Git has moved a long way since they last did a release).

-- 
Robin Hugh Johnson
Gentoo Linux Developer & Council Member
E-Mail     : robbat2@gentoo.org
GnuPG FP   : 11AC BA4F 4778 E3F6 E4ED  F38E B27B 944E 3488 4E85

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