From owner-freebsd-arch Tue Nov 12 6:10:27 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 835A537B401 for ; Tue, 12 Nov 2002 06:10:26 -0800 (PST) Received: from fledge.watson.org (fledge.watson.org [204.156.12.50]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AF7D043E42 for ; Tue, 12 Nov 2002 06:10:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from robert@fledge.watson.org) Received: from fledge.watson.org (fledge.pr.watson.org [192.0.2.3]) by fledge.watson.org (8.12.4/8.12.4) with SMTP id gACE9mOo034525; Tue, 12 Nov 2002 09:09:48 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from robert@fledge.watson.org) Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2002 09:09:48 -0500 (EST) From: Robert Watson X-Sender: robert@fledge.watson.org To: Mike Heffner Cc: Garance A Drosihn , arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Status of lukemftpd? (was: cvs commit: src/etc inetd.conf (fwd)) In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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