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
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!