From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Matthias Fischer To: development@lists.ipfire.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] Revived as addon: squid graphs 3.2 Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2017 14:17:11 +0100 Message-ID: <208a6831-d663-71d5-9a77-39a3cb6a1088@ipfire.org> In-Reply-To: <1510613765.3441.13.camel@ipfire.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="===============8300456326110567176==" List-Id: --===============8300456326110567176== Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi, On 13.11.2017 23:56, Michael Tremer wrote: > Hi, > > On Sun, 2017-11-12 at 11:11 +0100, Matthias Fischer wrote: >> Hi, >> >> On 12.11.2017 01:34, Matthias Fischer wrote: >> > Hi, >> > >> > For details see: >> > https://sourceforge.net/projects/squid-graph/ >> > ... >> >> Ok guys - sorry for the noise, but currently I'm not so fit as I'd like >> to be (flu). > > That's fine. Get better soon. Y >> After looking at my upload results in patchwork and GIT and - for >> example - thinking about future updates I decided to rework this addon >> from scratch. So for now I'll change this to 'under review' in patchwork. >> >> Reasons for this: >> During testing its installing and working ok, BUT(!)... >> >> Publishing or merging 'squid-graph' the way I did would induce the need >> to pack and upload a NEW archive every time something gets changed. Be >> it a language-file or some script or some GUI-file or something else. >> >> After looking at this, I thought it would be better and easier to >> maintain this addon if I build and pack it like 'squid-accounting' or >> 'wio' (e.g.). > > Well, since there is an upstream project, I think it is probably best > to use their tarball and have patches against the latest release. Done. Patch was easy, lfs-file a bit tricky, but looking good now. > However, this is indeed quite old, so it might make sense to fork it > and have an own git repository to work on it and release every once in > a while. Like we do with guardian... > > Maybe it makes sense to get in touch with the original maintainer and > see where that goes. That depends on what changes you are going to > make. I thought this over => created a sourceforge account today and sent an email to the original maintainer (detach8?), asking if he would mind if I adapt 'squid-graph 3.2 for IPFire. Waiting for response... Best, Matthias --===============8300456326110567176==--