Re: [Ethereal-dev] Major announcement

[Ulf Lamping <ulf.lamping@xxxxxx>]

Erwin Rol wrote:
> First of all still nobody answered the questions people have on the why
> this was done, just because Gerald got a new job is no reason.
>   
Well, Gerald is the founder of the project. He had to leave the 
trademark, website and things at NSI (his former employer),
with no admin access to the servers.

We don't know what NSI will do with Ethereal in the future, so it seemed 
a necessary thing to switch things now.
> So what is the reason of this change?
>   
See above.
> Than it is good to know that all non-core-developers, those that only
> help with pity little things like bug fixing and one or two little
> dissectors, are not important enough to be informed about this before it
> happens.
>   
I had a bad feeling about this too ...

I'm sorry about the feelings you have on this, and I can understand you 
with this.
> It would be interesting to know who those core-developers are, and who
> is that "one notable exception" ?
>   
Basically all the ones that you'll find in the (public) commit mailing 
lists of wireshark (and formerly Ethereal).
> Also as mentioned by someone else, it might be a good idea to put a
> explanation on www.ethereal.com. 
>   
That's not possible for us, as Gerald has no longer the admin right to 
do this.
> So what is happening to ethereal, where should i send patches, to what
> SVN should my patches be made, who is "owning" ethereal, etc. etc. Even
> the Bush administration has a better information policy on the Iraq war
> than what is happening here.
>   
ACK.

As already noted, all former Ethereal core maintainers are working on 
the Wireshark project now.

So in my eyes you should send patches to the Wireshark list now.
> All with all I think it is very disappointing how this was and still is
> handled, it some how seems that core-developers distrust the other
> developers and users. 
>   
It wasn't about distrusting the developers. It was about having the 
infrastructure ready before all the questions and inconsistencies are 
rushing in.

I agree that the transition was poorly made for the exact reason you've 
mentioned :-(

Regards, ULFL