libnet [PSARC/2008/409 FastTrack timeout 07/03/2008]

[Daria Mehra]

Garrett D'Amore wrote:
> A question about a project integrating without an upstream maintainer 
> that I'd have to ask is, how are we maintaining them?  You can't claim 
> there is upstream support if there really isn't any, so someone from 
> Sun our our community would need to sign up to "own" the software.  
> (Again, not architectural, but a real question for the C-Team.)
>
> But I think this particular concern may be irrelevant for this 
> project, since I did find at http://www.packetfactory.net/libnet/ that 
> there was a web page, updated last year, indicating that there is 
> still a maintainer for the upstream.  Do you know differently?

Yes indeed, the main page of the project says "Page last updated: Thu 
Feb 22 09:59:27 PST 2007". However I found no code updates or mailing 
list activity since 2005. I also tried contacting the maintainer via 
email (mike_schiffman at hotmail.com) 2 weeks ago and received no reply so 
far. Based on this, I would describe the upstream project state as not 
in active development, with questionable level of support.

My understanding is that by the virtue of porting libnet to opensolaris, 
I am signing up to own future updates. A better choice would be someone 
from Solaris networking group, but in the absence of volunteers, let's 
assume I am "it".

-- daria