Hi Dmitry, On 11/07/2015 00:35, Dmitry Smirnov wrote: > On Thu, 9 Jul 2015 23:48:32 Loic Dachary wrote: >> It so happens that I don't have time to do team work on >> this, hence my proposal to take over if the package was orphaned. > > No time for team work?!? Please enlighten us about your plans to fix > everything single-handedly as soon as those pesky co-maintainers are out of > your way. I wonder why Debian people bother to collaborate in teams if > working alone is so much more productive and easier?
:-) I suppose I would have reacted the same way as you just did if in your position. Team work is key to everything and my words did not convey what I meant, please excuse me. Being French, I sometime get lost in translation. We're doing a lot of work in Ceph, currently, to simplify integration testing. It is unfortunately still quite complex to setup and at the same time critical to ensure non regression and data integrity. I would be very happy to share what I've learnt over the past two years with co-maintainers, but that would take time. It would also take time to get access, learn how to schedule tests and analyze results. Instead I'm working to simplify the usage of the integration test infrastructure (see http://tracker.ceph.com/issues/6502 for instance) and I hope it can be easily applied independently to other projects such as jerasure, maybe some time next year. While it would be perfectly OK to wait a year or two for that to happen, in the case of jerasure this risk of data loss (and also the lack of optimized versions of the library) prompted me to offer my help as a solo maintainer of jerasure. Thomas also worked solo so far and did not communicate upstream, I figured such a switch would not break a team dynamic or a productive dialog between the maintainer and the upstream. Ceph is not using the jerasure library packaged in Debian GNU/Linux, I'm not directly concerned by the state of the package. But I care for jerasure beyond Ceph. However Thomas turned down my offer and the discussion is over. Cheers -- Loïc Dachary, Artisan Logiciel Libre
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