[avahi] Avahi mailing list open again!

[Till Kamppeter]

Some weeks ago, I have seen this bug report from Adrian Cable on Avahi:

https://github.com/lathiat/avahi/issues/388

and this comment

https://github.com/lathiat/avahi/issues/388#issuecomment-1196167125

where he expresses that he wants to volunteer on maintaining work on Avahi.

Note that I by myself am not stepping up for maintaining. I am the 
printing guru of Linux, leading http://www.openprinting.org/, and 
therefore a suffering user, as DNS-SD and therefore Avahi is essential 
for discovery of network printers and scanners and driverless 
printing/scanning.

And for me it would be best if Avahi gets maintained again. The other 
solution of systemd replacing Avahi would mean a lot of work for us, to 
switch our code to another DNS-SD library. We use the Avahi client 
library a lot. The advantage of systemd would be that we get rid of one 
daemon (avahi-daemon) and that it is much more solidly maintained by 
Lennart Poettering at Microsoft.

    Till


On 11/10/2022 19:58, Petr Menšík wrote:
> Especially avahi package maintainers would be appreciated to join here. 
> Do we have more volunteers to keep main repository active and fix bugs 
> in existing releases?
> 
> Can we find volunteers to add new features even?
>