I'm looking to make ownership of Cobbler more democratic. In
short, I'm
wanting to disappear and let someone else take Cobbler in whatever direction
they would like to take it -- not having the need to use it everyday means
I'm not really in the mode to test and fix things, which is holding us back.
We have made progress in opening things up on github and making a better
environment for people to more easily contribute, but there is more to do.
Namely we have to fix bugs. People assume I'm going to fix them, and I
don't… and as a result, they do not get fixed. OSS is not really
"community please help" sort of thing, it takes people to drive and do a
large amount of work. I knew this, but … well, I've confirmed it more.
We need drivers.
I'll go ahead and throw my hat in the ring.
For those who may not know me, I've been a contributor since 2008 and
have written/rewritten large portions of the code (import modules,
esx/esxi support, alternate template support, and the basis for the
web GUI to name a few). I've contributed patches to just about every
portion of the code, so I know the internal workings of cobbler pretty
well.
My company is fairly strict about not accessing personal mail during
work hours, so that means my hacking/irc/email answering time is
pretty much limited to evenings. I don't see that changing any time
soon, so that would be one negative. I was also recently promoted to
an architect position, so I'm not using cobbler day to day quite as
much as I was as an engineer.
I have too many hours dedicated to cobbler to let it die easily, so
I'm not going anywhere no matter what happens, and will continue
contributing for the foreseeable future no matter who's leading the
project.