[Debian-on-mobile-maintainers] Forking on MMSD

[Chris Talbot]

Hello,

I have attempted to contact the ofono IRC in January, Febuary, March,
April. I have sent my patches In April:

https://lists.ofono.org/hyperkitty/list/ofono@ofono.org/thread/2EYOPDWSF4G425MKKT2BVPVA5MZMTJPM/

March:
https://lists.ofono.org/hyperkitty/list/ofono@ofono.org/thread/2EYOPDWSF4G425MKKT2BVPVA5MZMTJPM/


And February:
https://lists.ofono.org/hyperkitty/list/ofono@ofono.org/thread/2EYOPDWSF4G425MKKT2BVPVA5MZMTJPM/

I have attempted to contact Ofono via IRC At every single attempt to
send patches, in addition to submitting my patches to linux-netdev:
https://marc.info/?l=linux-netdev&m=161842450604616&w=2

https://marc.info/?l=linux-netdev&m=161675572331026&w=2

and asking about how to contact the ofono maintainers in kernelnewbies
in IRC. 

I have attempted to individually email the mmsd Authors as well as
anyone within the past 5 years who contributed to mmsd. I simply do not
know of any other way to contact the mmsd maintainers.

I would really like to avoid a fork as well, but I am simply unwilling
to try and contact ofono and be ignored for months.

If you have some way to get the ofono maintainer to talk to me, I would
like to know, but chances are, I have tried it.

-- 
Respectfully,
Chris Talbot

On Wed, 2021-04-14 at 18:39 +0000, Marius Gripsgard wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I would really like to avoid a fork, it's not worth doing dual work.
> Did you ping ofono devs at irc?  Also have you sendt upstream
> patches? If a fork is the way you want to go, you will need to rename
> it as the existing packages need to follow upstream, we can't just
> rip an existing packages away from upstream.
> 
> Best regards,
> Marius
> 
> Apr 14, 2021 20:21:18 Chris Talbot <chris at talbothome.com>:
> 
> > Hello All,
> > 
> > In talking to the Debian Developer Mr. Federico Ceratto, since I
> > have
> > been unable to get a hold of the Ofono Maintainers, the best course
> > of
> > action for packaging mmsd into Debian is to simply fork the project
> > and
> > submit my version upstream for packaging in Debian. My repository
> > is
> > here: https://source.puri.sm/kop316/mmsd/
> > 
> > I am sending this so the relavent parties are aware of this, and to
> > indicate that I no longer intend on trying to get a hold of
> > upstream
> > mmsd to try and submit patches.
> > 
> > For the Purism Employees, I am additionally asking for permission
> > to
> > keep hosting mmsd on https://source.puri.sm/ . I have been
> > extremely
> > appreciative in using it and I am happy to keep it there, but I
> > want to
> > be neighboorly and ask if it is okay for me to keep it there. If it
> > is
> > not, I completely understand and I am fine with moving it to a new
> > host.
> > 
> > If you have any questions, comments, or concern, please reach out
> > to
> > me.
> > 
> > -- 
> > Respectfully,
> > Chris Talbot
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