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Fwd: Notes from Zephyr maintenance discussion meeting
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Geoffrey Thomas)
Sun Feb 2 00:39:57 2014
Date: Sun, 2 Feb 2014 00:39:49 -0500 (EST)
From: Geoffrey Thomas <geofft@ldpreload.com>
To: barnowl-dev@mit.edu
Hi BarnOwl folks,
Karl's stepped down from active Zephyr maintenance and we're building up a
new upstream Zephyr development team. If you're interested in helping or
following along with development discussion, please blanche yourself onto
zephyr-im or ask me to add you. See the email below for more info.
--
Geoffrey Thomas
https://ldpreload.com
geofft@ldpreload.com
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Date: Sun, 2 Feb 2014 00:38:07 -0500 (EST)
From: Geoffrey Thomas <geofft@ldpreload.com>
To: zephyr-im@mit.edu
Cc: David A Benjamin <davidben@mit.edu>, Mark W. Eichin <eichin@mit.edu>,
Jeffrey Hutzelman <jhutz@cmu.edu>, Timothy G Abbott <tabbott@mit.edu>
Subject: Notes from Zephyr maintenance discussion meeting
Karl's stepping down from active Zephyr maintenance, so a bunch of us who were
interested met in the SIPB office to discuss setting up a team of folks to
maintain zephyr and run the project infrastructure. I've attached some notes,
which are also available at
https://ldpreload.com/p/zephyr-notes-2014-02-01.txt
In the very short term, zephyr-im@mit.edu is a public Moira list for people who
are interested. Please blanche yourself on, or ask one of us to add you, if
you're interested in developing Zephyr, developing against Zephyr, deploying
Zephyr, etc. In the somewhat short term (days), we'll get a domain name and
install Mailman, and convert things over.
The room seemed pretty happy to move to GitHub for issue tracking and pull
requests, since it opens up development to people who aren't Kerberos-peered
with us and also avoids the problem of spam from opening up Trac access.
There's a GitHub organization at https://github.com/zephyr-im that Anders and I
are currently importing the Trac tickets and code into.
I think in general we'll be happy to have as many contributors as are
interested. I would like to have some sort of development summit in maybe two
or three months to talk about immediate and long-term goals, possibly including
major protocol work, so it'd be good if people could think about availability
for that. There was a suggestion from the room that it be in Pittsburgh --
Jeff, are you interested in making that happen?
There will be another email when
- GitHub is open for development
- There's a non-temporary mailing list
- I'm looking at actually planning a development meeting
so please add yourself to zephyr-im@mit.edu if you're interested in getting
followups.
Feel free to forward this mail / the notes to interested parties. I'm certain
I've missed people who are interested in Zephyr development.
I'd like to close this by thanking Karl for all his work in maintaining Zephyr
for the last few years (the 3.0 release, in particular, comes to mind). As a
happy user of Zephyr I'm indebted to his work in keeping it running and honored
to be helping with its development.
--
Geoffrey Thomas
https://ldpreload.com
geofft@ldpreload.com
