On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 06:56:39AM +0200, Max Kellermann wrote: > On 2008/10/16 20:36, Faidon Liambotis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > There are many similarities and/or cross-dependencies between those and > > AFAIK there are going to be more -- I've read that in the latest > > Netfilter workshop there was a proposal for nftables, an iptables > > replacement (perhaps ebtables and arptables too). > > Correct me if I'm wrong; Pierre you told me you were at the workshop, > > perhaps you know more. > > > > Alexander and Max already began such an effort but perhaps it's a good > > idea expanding the team and organizing it better (use alioth, a VCS etc.) > > > > What do you all think? > > +1 from me. We are already maintaining our packages in a (private) > subversion repository which we could (and should) move to Alioth. Of > course it's a good idea to have a bigger team, since I am an > unofficial Debian maintainer, and sometimes Alexander doesn't have > enough time to sponsor my package uploads, leading to unnecessary > delays. >
Globally, I'll agree: I'm maintaining some local copies of the packages anyway for our use (libnf*, mainly) on packages.inl.fr, and some of my packages are based on them: ulogd2, nfqueue-bindings (soon to be in Debian), and NuFW. Some of the packages are quite different anyway: xtables-addons, nufw, etc. Coordination would be good in any case. nftables won't be ready until some time, as Patrick explained in the NetFilter Workshop (see http://nfws.inl.fr/en/?p=92). So, +1 for me :) Pierre PS: Mark, If you need some sponsorship on libnf*, and if Alexander agrees, I can do that. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
