Re: future of TMDA

Jason R. Mastaler wrote:
> The thread you've all been waiting for?  Maybe.
> ...
> Obviously, one of the prior developers like Tim Legant, Jim Ramsay, or
> Gre7g would be best suited to do this, but honestly I have no idea
> where they are either.  I've tried to contact Tim a couple of times in
> the past year, but have received no response.  From casual observation
> of the lists, Stephen Warren seems like he would also be well
> qualified for these duties (though I'm not putting you on the spot
> Stephen).

Well, stepping up to do this is something I have idly thought about in 
the past.

I think TMDA's future would work best if there were a number of people 
with "core" contributor roles, so no one person was a bottle-neck. I 
don't know how much time it would take to maintain TMDA (well, I guess 
it depends on how much one performs maintenance v.s. enhancements...)

I am pretty familiar with tmda-ofmipd's code, but really not too 
familiar with the rest of TMDA. That said, I do know Python  well now, 
and can certainly track things down in the code and work out how it all 
fits together.

So yes, I'd certainly be interested in some form of role in maintaining 
TMDA. That said, I would have to think about how much time it would take 
to be *the* maintainer of the code. On that topic, I have relatives over 
for a long weekend, so the next couple of days aren't the right time for 
thinking about that!

I'm guessing the best way to get things going is to unlock the existing 
TMDA wiki so we can document any problems people know about, and any 
patches for those, or enhancements. Once we have a better idea about 
where things are, we can think about how to integrate this into the TMDA 
code-base (TLS server support directly in tmda-ofmipd would be a top 
wish-list item for me!)

I guess the thing that's most badly affected TMDA development recently 
is that it basically just works 99.99% of the time, and so it isn't 
really the squeaky wheel that got the oil:-)

-- 
Stephen Warren, Software Engineer, NVIDIA, Fort Collins, CO
[email protected]     http://www.wwwdotorg.org/pgp.html

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