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From: Till Kamppeter <till.kamppeter@gmail.com>
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Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2019 22:26:29 +0100
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Subject: Re: [Printing-architecture] OpenPrinting News
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To: Michael Sweet <msweet@apple.com>
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On 13/02/2019 21:34, Michael Sweet wrote:
> Till,
> 
>> On Feb 13, 2019, at 1:14 PM, Till Kamppeter <till.kamppeter@gmail.com 
>> <mailto:till.kamppeter@gmail.com>> wrote:
>> ...
>> According to Zdenek, Michal tried this with the co-maintainership already.
>>
>> Seems that Trent is refusing any cooperation or completely ignoring 
>> the project.
>>
>> My suggestion is to fork the project and use one of the locations 
>> suggested by me, but who should be the upstream maintainer then.
> 
> Well, if you fork and put the fork under openprinting, then you can give 
> access to the various Linux packagers of Avahi and let them merge any 
> bug fixes, etc. there at least.  And then *if* Trent starts maintaining 
> Avahi again and accepting pull requests you can easily get those changes 
> back to him...

I could do so and I can imagine that the distros will adopt this, but 
important is that I am not able to do the full upstream maintainer work. 
I cannot swallow all free software projects which are somehow needed for 
printing to work but given up upstream.

As interim upstream maintainer of Avahi I could do things like assign 
commit rights to distro package maintainers, do releases, perhaps also 
merge pull requests, but I cannot move forward the development. Here I 
need contributors (for example distro packagers) who create the code (or 
mentor a GSoC student on an Avahi project, the slot I could provide).

By the way, who is the original author of Avahi?

    Till