RFH: co-maintenance for smokeping
Gabriel Filion <[email protected]> Sun, 22 Feb 2026 12:08:10 -0500
| Newsgroups | gmane.linux.debian.devel.perl,gmane.linux.debian.devel.general |
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| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
Hello! I've been maintaining the smokeping package for a number of years now and the more time passes the less I can find the energy to work on the package. I'm currently the only person maintaining this package and I know that it is being used by some folks across debian and its derivatives. I'm also not a DD or DM so every time I need to push an update I have to find someone to sponsor my uploads, which slows down my motivation. So I'd like to open up the door for co-maintenance. I would like to continue to do some work on it as I can, but I would appreciate some help for more timely updates in some cases. smokeping is generally a software that doesn't have new features developped anymore. However, upstream still regularly accepts patches to fix bus and it does happen sometimes that a new release is made to release those fixes. So it's generally a low-maintenance package. smokeping is a daemon and fastcgi-based web application written in perl that polls some network targets and uses rrdtools by the same author to generate latency and availability graphs. cheers!