From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Matthias Fischer <matthias.fischer@ipfire.org>
To: development@lists.ipfire.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] New package: IPTraffic 0.8.2
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 2021 11:08:38 +0100
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Hi,

[shortened for better readability]

On 27.01.2021 19:36, Matthias Fischer wrote:
> ...
>>>> ...
>>>> Thank you for submitting the patch.
>>>>=20
>>>> It is great to see more people taking part in development tasks, but I a=
m not really sure what has been done here.
>>>>=20
>>>> The main problem is that I do not know what IPTraffic does, or how it wo=
rks. The code is in a tarball and I am not aware if there is a Git repository=
 to see what has been changed over time.
>=20
> I'm working on this.
>>> ...
>> What do you suggest we should do right now?
>=20
> As a start, I rewrote the whole building and installation process - I
> got rid of the tarball. I would test if its ok  - one of the 'Devels' is
> already working on it - and building as expected and then push it to GIT
> / Patchwork. This would make the current code readable and transparent
> to everybody.

Done. Sent a reworked version.

>=20
> Suggestion:
> Then "someone" (sorry, not me, thats far beyond my capabilities) should
> be able to decide whether she/he is able to use and rewrite the existing
> code to eliminate the disussed "shortcomings" (Google translate, I don't
> know if this fits!) and if it can be integrated or publishd as an addon.
> I can't decide if it would be better to start from scratch, see above
> (Bernhards comments).

Best,
Matthias

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