On Wed, 31 May 2000, Daniel E. Lautenschleger wrote:
> Are these tweaks, changes and mods incorporated into a new
> version of Netatalk on a frequent enough basis? Is Adrian Sun the only
> person who maintains the Netatalk program any longer?
There are a few people contributing to parts of netatalk at least. Andras
Kadinger and I have made some improvements to papd recently, but Adrian is
the only one making substantial changes to afpd that I know of.
> By the way, where has he been? He used to post quite frequently and I have
> not seen a posting in quite a long time.
I haven't heard a word from him for a while either. I've submitted some
patches to him directly, but I haven't received any response. I hope he
is okay!
> It appears that the folks at the University of Michigan now view Netatalk
> as an open source program. Frankly, I use the program and am excited about
> its potential, but am not pleased with the documentation and
> updating issues surrounding Netatalk. It appears the archives of the
> mailing list are *way* out of date as well.
The documentation is definately lacking, especially some simple
installation instructions. Fortunately, this is something netatalk users
without programming experience can contribute!
> I realize it is a free program and am mostly satisfied with the results
> I've had using the program. I too want to roll this product out on a much
> larger scale than I have already, but it just isn't ready for prime time
> yet. I only wish my programming skills were up to snuff so that I could
> contribute in a positive manner.
>
> I'm complaining out of frustration, folks. I really hope to someday be
> serving 200+ Mac clients of my Linux boxes using Netatalk:-)
If Adrian Sun is really out of the picture, maybe we should grab the
latest code and start a site on SourceForge for a more collaborative
development environment... That would allow the rest of the community to
contribute code and documentation without having to funnel it through
Adrian.
Any thoughts?
Andy
