On 10/11/22 20:57, Till Kamppeter wrote:
Some weeks ago, I have seen this bug report from Adrian Cable on Avahi:
https://github.com/lathiat/avahi/issues/388
and this comment
https://github.com/lathiat/avahi/issues/388#issuecomment-1196167125
where he expresses that he wants to volunteer on maintaining work on
Avahi.
Note that I by myself am not stepping up for maintaining. I am the
printing guru of Linux, leading http://www.openprinting.org/, and
therefore a suffering user, as DNS-SD and therefore Avahi is essential
for discovery of network printers and scanners and driverless
printing/scanning.
Understood. I am a colleague of Zdeněk Dohnal, I guess you would know
him from Open Printing group. He has complained not only a single time
on different avahi problems. I am willing to spend some time on Avahi. I
would not say being primary maintainer, but a co-worker, why not. I like
avahi is a separate, specialized thing. But I admit many bugs are
unfixed now.
And for me it would be best if Avahi gets maintained again. The other
solution of systemd replacing Avahi would mean a lot of work for us,
to switch our code to another DNS-SD library. We use the Avahi client
library a lot. The advantage of systemd would be that we get rid of
one daemon (avahi-daemon) and that it is much more solidly maintained
by Lennart Poettering at Microsoft.
Till
Systemd has much more people than just Lennart. Several people from Red
Hat are working on it, it does not depend on single person anymore.
Their disadvantage is too broad scope in my opinion. They implement too
many different things in a single project. Many involved people, but
also many different areas. Not sure it is an ideal candidate.
On 11/10/2022 19:58, Petr Menšík wrote:
Especially avahi package maintainers would be appreciated to join
here. Do we have more volunteers to keep main repository active and
fix bugs in existing releases?
Can we find volunteers to add new features even?
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Petr Menšík
Software Engineer, RHEL
Red Hat, http://www.redhat.com/
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