Re: Future of dnsjava

[Brian W. <bwe...@xb...>]

Hi Ingo,

The main reason that I haven’t applied any patches recently is that I wouldn’t feel comfortable applying patches and/or doing releases without reviewing and testing the changes, and I haven’t had the time or motivation to do either of those things.  

If you (or anyone else) would like to assume maintenance of the project, I’d be in favor of that.  I haven’t used Java for anything other than maintaining dnsjava for at least 10 years, so it’s not too likely that I’m going to start doing more anytime soon.

If you do wish to be the maintainer, I’d much rather see the GitHub repo become the primary source.  There’s no compelling reason to use SourceForge (and there hasn’t been for a long time), and if I had been doing any serious development, I would have moved the project years ago.  There shouldn’t be a huge amount of state there worth saving (I think it’s just the open tickets), and I can also make you a maintainer of the project on SourceForge, in order to facilitate any redirection.

I’d definitely like to see the library continue, even if I’m not as involved.

Thanks,
Brian

> On May 12, 2019, at 4:11 AM, Ingo Bauersachs <in...@ji...> wrote:
> 
> Hi Brian
> 
> As you've made clear, you won't be working on dnsjava anytime soon. Would
> you accept/apply patches though? There are a few lying around in the mailing
> list archive, in tickets, and in forks. If they were properly redacted and
> sent to you again, could you do a release?
> 
> Alternatively, would you be willing to add me as a contributor on
> Sourceforge to co-maintain dnsjava? I've been maintaining the Git mirror
> over at Github and the Maven Central release for a while now, and I've
> previously sent patches that you've applied, so I'm no total stranger.
> 
> We could also agree on some other options how to move forward, but it would
> be a real shame if this library would die completely.
> 
> Thanks,
> Ingo
> 
> PS: Sorry if you read this twice, I'm not sure if you're still receiving or
> reading the forums at Sourceforge.
>