Hi Michael,
Michael Raymond, on 2003-10-16, 12:01, you wrote:
> I guess I'll take this oppurtunity to introduce myself to the list. I
> am still coming up to speed on it so I'd like to ask you guys what your
> expectations of me are? I'm expecting to test and roll in the patches that
> are sent my way. There has been a little discussion of moving this project
> to SourceForge. Would there be any real benefit to doing so?
I am the maintainer of the FAM Debian packages. I would second using
sf.net for development of FAM because there it would be easy to add
other developers to the project (if you trust them, of course). I think
this would benefit FAM as some people like me have nice ideas how FAM
should evolve in the future and can actually work on them.
Following are mine:
- libfam and famd should be able to communicate with each other
without using portmap. This wish is often heard from people using
desktop environments like GNOME or KDE and do not want to run
portmap just for using fam.
- You should integrate the DNotify patch upstream. That would ease
packaging since all major distributions include this patch.
- The build system needs a complete overhaul. It is kind of outdated
(from old autotools versions) and brings lots of problems while
building packages of fam.
- I would like to see fam using a kind of plugin system for the
actual monitors. So one could install fam and a dnotify-, an imon-
and a polling-module and fam would choose among them during startup.
This would make fam more flexible, better to debug and easier to
extend.
These are my thoughts from a packagers point of view. I would be glad to
help you develop fam.
Greetings from Germany,
Joerg
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Joerg "joergland" Wendland
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