Hello, I would like to start a meta-project whose main purpose is to run a mailing list and possibly a couple of wiki pages to share information between network configuration service implementors. There are numerous network configuration service projects including: * connman * netcfg * netifd * NetworkManager * systemd-networkd * WICD * wicked And many related projects and libraries, libnl, wpa_supplicant, pppd, and pyroute2 being just random examples. It would be very useful to have a common mailing list for developers of all of those projects to communicate about network configuration topics. Currently involved people (project admins / mail admins): * Peter V. Savaliev <peter at svinota.eu>, father of the idea * Pavel Šimerda <psimerda at redhat.com>, first co-conspirator * Michael Shigorin <mike at osdn.org.ua>, recommended freedesktop.org I hope more people will join us. Suggested project name: network-configuration Mailing list name: network-configuration@... No git repositories. No bugzilla for now. No file upload.
Guys, pls support the idea. We really need some place where we can sync ideas, interfaces and so on — avoiding the «take or leave» approach, that dominates now in many projects.
Any progress? More people interested?
So a number of us met at FOSDEM including Daniel, Tom, Harald, Greg and me, discussed various integration topics (more details coming soon) and confirmed the need for a common workgroup with a mailing list, at the least. Our common understanding is that FreeDesktop.org is the best place to start it.
Many of us meeting at: http://wiki.linuxplumbersconf.org/2014:network-management Also, is freedesktop.org already dead or it is possible to get someone respond on this very request?
Just a reminder for FOSDEM 2015: https://fosdem.org/2015/news/2014-09-30-accepted-devrooms/ Today's the official deadline for the networking devroom. Please send your submissions.
In general, we don't tend to incubate/push for people, but just provide places to host already-existing discussions. Have you already got a number of people interested in this?
(In reply to Daniel Stone from comment #6) > In general, we don't tend to incubate/push for people, but just provide > places to host already-existing discussions. Have you already got a number > of people interested in this? It doesn't like anything happened at all. At least I am not aware. From my side I am fine if we close this bug.
OK, thanks Daniel. If a project forms and looks like it has a) enough code and b) wide enough interest for it to be a sustainable cross-desktop thing, we'll be more than happy to take it. But in general we try to avoid setting up repositories for ideas.
(In reply to Daniel Stone from comment #8) > OK, thanks Daniel. If a project forms and looks like it has a) enough code > and b) wide enough interest for it to be a sustainable cross-desktop thing, > we'll be more than happy to take it. But in general we try to avoid setting > up repositories for ideas. I don't think it makes sense to have any project in an infrastructure where even rejecting a trivial request takes 24 months.
(In reply to Pavel Šimerda from comment #9) > I don't think it makes sense to have any project in an infrastructure where > even rejecting a trivial request takes 24 months. I totally understand that.
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