On 11/10/2022 21:12, Petr Menšík wrote:
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.
Do you also know Adrian?
Understood. I am a colleague of Zdeněk Dohnal, I guess you would know
him from Open Printing group.
I know him very well. He is part of my team, the OpenPrinting team. He
does a lot of bug triaging, is release manager of CUPS 2.4.x. Does a lot
of nice things for us. He will also be on the Ubuntu Summit in Prague in
November and there with me on the OpenPrinting Community sessions (it is
only 2 hours drive from Brno, you could also come).
He has complained not only a single time
on different avahi problems.
I also had my problems. I have posted a tiny patch to add localhost
(loopback "lo" device) support to Avahi, for local services like Printer
Applications (replacement for printer drivers) and IPP-over-USB
(driverless USB printing), and it took 3 (!) years until it got merged.
And I am working at Canonical.
https://openprinting.github.io/achievements/#localhost-support-in-avahi
I am willing to spend some time on Avahi. I
would not say being primary maintainer, but a co-worker, why not.
I hope as a co-worker of Adrian Cable.
I like
avahi is a separate, specialized thing. But I admit many bugs are
unfixed now.
[...]
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.
Yes, I have seems some talk praising systemd when it was introduced into
WSL some weeks ago, and it does a lot of things which most users do not
need, even managing on-demand replication of servers in the cloud.
But systemd has also its good side:
https://openprinting.github.io/OpenPrinting-News-September-2022/#saving-old-printers-under-windows-is-getting-easier
Till
