Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2002 09:09:48 -0500 (EST) From: Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.ORG> To: Mike Heffner <mheffner@vt.edu> Cc: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu>, arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Status of lukemftpd? (was: cvs commit: src/etc inetd.conf (fwd)) Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1021112090738.34518A-100000@fledge.watson.org> In-Reply-To: <XFMail.20021109031937.mheffner@vt.edu>
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On Sat, 9 Nov 2002, Mike Heffner wrote: > 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. You do realize that we're in a feature freeze right now, and will be in a code freeze within days, right? You're coming up a dollar short, and a day late. This is the reason I've trying to press for a resolution for weeks now. I'm deeply concerned that we've imported software without doing any of the necessary mergework and adaptation, and are now apparently planning to ship it. Robert N M Watson FreeBSD Core Team, TrustedBSD Projects robert@fledge.watson.org Network Associates Laboratories To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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