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Date:      Sat, 09 Nov 2002 03:19:37 -0500 (EST)
From:      Mike Heffner <mheffner@vt.edu>
To:        Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu>
Cc:        arch@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Status of lukemftpd? (was: cvs commit: src/etc inetd.conf (fwd))
Message-ID:  <XFMail.20021109031937.mheffner@vt.edu>
In-Reply-To: <p0511170ab9de72fa903d@[128.113.24.47]>

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On 25-Oct-2002 Garance A Drosihn wrote:
| At 11:42 AM +0930 10/25/02, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote:
|>On Thursday, 24 October 2002, Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
|>  > I'm not exactly suggesting anything here (like someone jumping up
|>>  and saying "I will"); just making sure that the author of lukemftp
|>>  and lukemftpd is contacted before any decision is made.
|>
|>Luke is also very concerned about compatibility between the BSDs.
|>It's understandable that lukemftpd (currently) doesn't support
|>FreeBSD-specific features, but I'm sure that he'd be interested in
|>maintaining the features in some form.  Has anybody asked him?
| 
| All reports are that Luke is a nice guy, and willing to work with
| freebsd.  The problem is finding someone in freebsd who is willing
| to work on comparing freebsd-ftp to lukemftpd.  Philosophically I'm
| all for the idea, but I am another person who can't commit to doing
| any useful work on it at the moment.
| 
| If we can't find someone on our side to do the necessary work, then
| we probably do have to "play down" lukemftpd for the upcoming 5.0
| release.  So we need to find that willing volunteer sometime soon,
| and someone who has the time right now...
| 

Sorry to come in late on this discussion. I was originally one of the
people who was interested in the importing of lukemftpd and merging in
some of the FreeBSD'isms, etc.. Unfortunately, due to school and $ work I
haven't had the time necessary that I had hoped to devote to it. However,
as soon as I get a -current box together I plan to continue where I left
off with this.

Yes, as many people have mentioned, Luke is more than willing to merge in
changes from FreeBSD to lukemftpd (take for example the many changes to
lukemftp that he accepted and then released a new version of). Luke is
typically very busy, but I've generally found that if a patch is produced
that is acceptable and doesn't require much time on his part to integrate,
he will merge it into lukemftp[d].

I plan to pick up the PRs that have been opened against it and remove the
ambiguities that lukemftpd is 'the ftpd'. I will also try to merge as many
of the critical aspects from ftpd as possible (eg, the login.conf
support) before 5.0-R. If anyone else has worked on any of these, please
let me know so that we can coordinate.


Thanks,


Mike

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  Mike Heffner       <mheffner@[acm.]vt.edu>
                         <mikeh@FreeBSD.org>


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