Re: [ANNOUNCE] util-linux-ng

[Ian Kent <raven@themaw.net>]

On Wed, 2006-12-20 at 13:19 +0100, Jens Axboe wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 18 2006, Ian Kent wrote:
> > On Mon, 18 Dec 2006, Arkadiusz Miskiewicz wrote:
> > 
> > > On Monday 18 December 2006 08:52, Karel Zak wrote:
> > > >  I'm pleased to announce a new "util-linux-ng" project. This project
> > > >  is a fork of the original util-linux (2.13-pre7).
> > > 
> > > Fork? Are you saying that you just didn't take over maintainership and now we 
> > > will have two versions of util-linux!? :/
> > > 
> > 
> > We tried, believe me, but couldn't get agreement (or a response from 
> > current maintainer).
> 
> That's ridiculous. Adrian, why don't you just sign over maintainership
> of util-linux, if you don't have time to cater for it? At least answer
> emails on the subject, you seem to be busy here on lkml all the time, so
> I'm sure you can find 2 minutes to wrap this up.
> 

Or even accept the offer of help and co-maintainer ship in the spirit
that was given.

Unfortunately we ended up having to fork.

Ian


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