Re: Forking on MMSD

[Chris Talbot <chris@talbothome.com>]

Hello,

On Tue, 2021-04-27 at 11:15 +0200, Pavel Machek wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> > > > This is not ofono I am forking, merely MMSD.
> > > 
> > > So first, sorry, I was confused, I assumed mmsd is part of ofono.
> > 
> > No worries! To the best of my knowledge, mmsd is a part of ofono?
> > That
> > is why I have tried to submit my patches on the Ofono Mailing list
> > several times. However, for the purposes of getting MMS to work in
> > Mobian/PostmarketOS/Fedora, I have only been working on mmsd.
> > 
> > The "Open Source Telephony Group" is listed as the maintainers of
> > it on
> > kernel.org, which I assumed to be the Ofono group.
> > 
> > > I guess Marcel Holtmann is right person to talk to. I put him in
> > > Cc
> > > list. I'm also Ccing Denis and phone-devel list.
> > > 
> > > > and asking about how to contact the ofono maintainers in
> > > > kernelnewbies
> > > > in IRC. 
> > > 
> > > Well, kernelnewbies and netdev mailing list are not really right
> > > places to ask.
> > > 
> > 
> > I have attempted to contact Mr. Holtmann and Mr. Kenzior
> > individually
> > (as they are listed as Authors on mmsd). However, I do know at
> > least
> > Mr. Kenzior is on the Ofono Mailing list. I believe both are on the
> > Ofono IRC (guessing by the screen names). I really did not want to
> > spam
> > their personal email addresses multiple times, as I feel that is
> > rude.
> > 
> > I contacted the netdev mailing list at the advice of another
> > developer.
> > 
> > kernelnewbies was a guess from myself, as I had no idea who else to
> > contact to talk to folks on kernel.org and that seemed like a
> > reasonable starting point.
> 
> It increasingly looks like you did right.
> 
> You still may want to contact linuxfoundations admins -- for example
> Konstantin Ryabitsev <konstantin@linuxfoundation.org> .
> 

While I am not opposed to doing this, I feel that me cold emailling
them will not result in a lot, mainly because they have no idea who I
am (which I feel is understandable, as they are getting someone they
don't know asking for commit access).

From your email, it seems that you may possibly know them? I feel if
there was a third party introduction, the chances of my success at this
is much higher. Would this be something you would be willing to do? 

If not, I also understand, as I said above, I'm someone you haven't
really met or know.

Thank you!

Respectfully,
Chris Talbot




> Best regards,
>                                                                 Pavel
>