ureadahead

[Dmitrijs Ledkovs]

On 4 March 2013 21:29, Phillip Susi <psusi at ubuntu.com> wrote:
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> On 3/4/2013 2:58 PM, Bryan Fullerton wrote:
>> However, in the process of this I couldn't help but notice that
>> ureadahead seems fairly abandoned, even though it's still shipping
>> with most (all?) versions of Ubuntu. The main project on LP hasn't
>> been updated in almost three years, and even the Ubuntu branches
>> only have bare minimum of updates.
>>
>> So... questions.
>>
>> Is the intention to keep ureadahead in the base Ubuntu OS for the
>> foreseeable future?
>>
>> If yes, should changes to the base functionality (which arguably
>> all the changes I've made are) be pushed back up to the main
>> ureadahead LP project, or just done in Ubuntu release branches?
>>
>> And in either case, who is the maintainer now for the main LP
>> project and Ubuntu branches?
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> The maintainer for the project is still Scott James Remnant, who no
> longer works for Canonical, so doesn't seem to be working on it any
> more.  Seeing as how there have been merge requests pending since
> 2010, we probably need to have someone else take it over over.
>

I am quite happy to review ureadahead bugfixes & improvements.
I'll try to go over the pending merge proposals on both upstream and
ubuntu branches.
If there is anything specific you are after, just reply in private to
me and I'll prioritise it.

Regards,

Dmitrijs.