connman + modemmanager

[Uwe Geuder]

Hi!

I'll take the risk of being blamed for cursing in church or just asking
a stupid question...

For reasons out of my control we use connman in our project. So far it
has been Ethernet and WiFi and it has just worked.

Now there is a new requirement to support 3G USB dongles (well and I
guess 4G, too). I understood connman does that using ofono, but there
have been some doubts how alive and up to date that project really is.
I know it has been used at least in a couple of phones and it seems to
work there (I happen to own such a phone:). But with USB dongles
everybody expects you to support "all" of them, in a phone you just have
one modem. So I think it's a fundamentally different question.

So I might consider to recommend ModemManager to our project, because I had
the feeling it is actively maintained (at least a couple of years ago
when I had trouble with my own 3G dongle).

2 questions come to my mind:

- is combining connman + modemmanager reasonable at all? Has anybody
  done or even considered it? Any work estimates?

- I'd like to use the argument that modemmanager is actively maintained
  but when looking at 
  http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/ModemManager/SupportedDevices/
  I must state that it has been nearly a year since the last update.
  Any explanation for that? (I'm not here to blame anybody, I do know that
  in open source projects there are always fewer volunteers than tasks
  to do)

Best regards,

Uwe Geuder
Nomovok Ltd.
Tampere, Finland
uwe.gxuder at nomovok.com (bot check: humans correct 1 obvious spelling error