Re: Is the logwatch project dying?

Hello Kirk, hello list,

On Monday, 12th of October 2009 21:48:09 Kirk Bauer wrote:
> Well, I think Mike keeps up with the patches  OK, so it is up to him
> if he wants any help. 

On Friday, 9th of October 2009 22:59:24 Mike Tremaine wrote:
> As far as I know I am
> the only one doing any CVS commits. It has been this way for awhile. I
> wish I had more time and energy to get all the patches in and all that
> but the truth is I don't. Every 6 months or so I'll get fired up and try
> to catch up with the patches, I have them all tagged in my mailbox and
> all that but at the end of the day I'm one guy who has lots of other
> things I have to do.

That doesn't sound to me as when Mike keeps up with the patches OK.

> I can do builds as often as we want: it is
> fully automated.  Usually somebody requests a new build and Mike makes
> sure he is caught up on patches and I push it out.
> 
> Our main problem is we are reactive -- somebody sends in a patch, Mike
> applies it, I do a build.  But ideally we could use some people that
> are more involved with the distributions (Red Hat, Debian, etc) and
> can improve Logwatch to make it easier on them.  Ideally we would have
> people who could "own" portions of Logwatch (e.g. specific filters)
> and actively (and pro-actively) maintain them.

Yes, divide the filters into groups and let one person be responsible for one 
group of filters. Even if these people only work reactive it would lower Mikes 
workload. And sure, to have an active development of the filters would be 
quite nice.

I would like to spend some of my time on this project and help to keep things 
running. For me it is the same as for Otheus: I would like to help in any way 
Mike feels best.

regards
Stefan