[kismac] Re: KisMAC Maintenance

Thanks for the reply Mick. I'll work on cleaning up the ethereal code.

I agree with you that a fork probably won't work and that we need new maintainers / commit people.
I'd be happy to write some code, but not really to be in charge of commit (yet...). I would be very happy to update the website - it really needs an overhaul - it's very out of date. I've already overhauled the KisMAC help files.

I would also like to see the possibility of having an option for .kismac to draw the APs over Google Maps...

Oh, and another thing that may or may not be of interest to us now - the MacBookPro (and intel iMac) have a different wireless chipset. This apparently supports 802.11a as I hear...

On 28/01/2006, at 8:32 AM, Michael Rossberg wrote:

Hi everybody,

as you have all more or less noticed, i am no longer able to maintain kismac at all. i am currently doing an internship, which pretty much eats up all my time. worse than that one of my flat mates told the t-com, that we no longer need our dsl :o(. there will be no change of this situation at least until april.
now to be honest i am an enemy of forks. forks have the side effect, that a lot of work is done twice and even worse a lot of fork tend to die early. only few of you may know that there had been a fork of kismac already. no need to search for it anymore... instead of forming a community website, where everything grows wild, my proposal would be the election of a new maintainer and/or people who may commit changes. the advantages are clearly better code and the security that there is a person in charge. i would fully support such a solution, with my advice, webspace and help (the last thing after april). what do you guys think? somebody who would volunteer? robin? geoff? globo? i would write a request for a new maintainer etc. on the website, if some of you like the idea. i think this way we are able to steer this "eruption", and force it in a steady direction.

now to more particular problems, that i want to give some comments on:
- the sourceforge idea: sf is nice if you have some unix project. with all the compile servers etc. binaervarianz can give us way more flexibility (as we control the server ourselves)
- the patches by Geordie (themacuser): i actually integrated two of your patches in my private source tree. the reason i did not post them, was you third patch. the ethereal thingy. you hard coded the ethereal path and the code was imho a bit "messy". which was something i wanted to clean up, but then the internship started. i also wanted to do a couple of tests before checkin, because of the rather large changes.

Good night evening (or whatever time it may be in your place) and thanks for all the participation =)

mick

p.s. globo thanks for the sms, would not have read these mails...




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