Re: Webcamd future

Nicolas Goy wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I was appointed as maintainer of webcamd, and I realize the situation is 
> a bit complicated on the human side of things as the original author 
> passed away and he was an important member of the community. I hope to 
> be able to respect his work moving things forward.
> 
> 
> The upstream project is now unmaintained and we apply patches as port 
> files but this is not a good situation.
> 
> The webcamd project is very important to FreeBSD on the desktop and I 
> think it deserve to be maintained properly.
> 
> While I am quite confident in C, I am ignorent of USB stack and linux 
> kernel so I don't feel like I am the best person to write significant 
> changes to the project. But I think I can manage patches and hope the 
> project will stay stable.
> 
> The project is on an unmaintained github repository and will need to be 
> forked.
> 
> I would prefer to put the project outside of github and under a common 
> control (under a foundation organization or something).
> 
> So I am wondering if freebsd has such umbrella where we could put the 
> proect.
> 
I think much of the efforts in this area have gone towards base system 
integration, ie video(4) and uvideo(4). These are present and under 
active development in -CURRENT.

-- 
Charlie Li
...nope, still don't have an exit line.

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