Re: [Linux-decnet-user] Project News

[John F. <jo...@fo...>]

Thanks for all your work supporting decnet for linux.
And best of luck with your future endeavors.

On Wed, 18 Nov 2009, Chrissie Caulfield wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> Some project news - yes we have news, though it's not much.
>
> Firstly I've cancelled the planned move to fedorahosted as it's taken
> them 4 months to do almost nothing. As part of the reason for me wanting
> to move was the unresponsiveness and unhelpfulness of Sourceforge, it
> seems a little pointless. So we're staying with SF. Considering how few
> updates happen to the code and documents anyway this seems sensible.
>
> Secondly, I've sent a patch to the linux-kernel mailing list to orphan
> the kernel code. I can't maintain it - I don't have the time, the
> expertise or even really the hardware any more. I also hate dealing with
> the 'people' on that mailing list (they'll probably bounce my
> MAINTAINERS patch for whitespace errors knowing them). Unfortunately
> there is a bug in the DECnet kernel code such that any release after
> 2.6.29 will just oops when trying to make a connection. So I recommend
> you steer clear of newer kernels unless you fancy fixing the bug yourself.
>
> I'm not abandoning DECnet totally, I will respond as best I can to any
> bug reports, but it's a mature project now, and just does the small
> number of things that are asked of it.
>
> Thanks
>
> /Chrissie/
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