Re: Forking on MMSD

[Chris Talbot <chris@talbothome.com>]

Hello!

On Thu, 2021-04-15 at 00:58 +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.

> > I have attempted to individually email the mmsd Authors as well as
> > anyone within the past 5 years who contributed to mmsd. I simply do
> > not
> > know of any other way to contact the mmsd maintainers.
> 
> Ok, so you did quite a good job.
> 
> I still hope Marcel will reply. If not, I believe it makes sense to
> ask kernel.org admins (perhaps konstantin@linuxfoundation.org ?) who
> is maintainer of mmsd repository and how to reach them, or perhaps
> how
> to take over, as it is not exactly active.
> 
> 2019-07-24      ofono: Read Firmware version (Revision) for Device
> 2019-07-24              ofono: Read IMEI SV for Device Management
> 2019-07-24              ofono: Read IMEI for Device Management  Ankit
> 2017-07-22      wsputil: Fix fall through comment       Marcel
> 2017-07-22      build: Use AM_CPPFLAGS instead of
> INCLUDES      Marcel
> 2015-04-20      gdbus: Close private connection if setup fails  Luiz
> 
> Best regards and good luck,
> 
>                                                                 Pavel

Thank you! I hope so as well. If not, Perhaps the kernel.org admin is
the right place to go.

-- 
Respectfully,
Chris Talbot