[Debburn-devel] want to help

[Albert Cahalan]

I just about forked the damn thing myself. :-)
Clearly your caffeine source is stronger than mine.

This alioth site is trouble. Unlike sourceforge.net, it seems
that I can't create a normal regular account. How can I get
a non-guest account? If the answer is just "NO", would you
mind moving the project elsewhere? I'd like to be a regular
developer. I have a sourceforge.net account.

Debian developers might know me as procps upstream.
I'm clueful about real-time and secure coding.

Settled on the name yet?

Thoughts on untangling the mess? I tend to think that
ultimately the privileged code should speak a simple
protocol on stdin/stdout, live in the /usr/lib directory,
and never be invoked directly by the user. A library can
speak with that, and an unprivileged /usr/bin/cdrecord
can just use the library.

Does anybody have any strong opinions about the level of
portability that is appropriate? On the one hand, portability
means more help. On the other hand, it means more work
and some awkward limitations. I'm inclined to favor the
current stuff: Linux 2.6, FreeBSD, MacOS X, OpenBSD,
Solaris, HP-UX, AIX, IRIX, and maybe Windows. (with some
minor difficulty for FreeBSD, these are the systems which
are certain to handle respectible device addressing)

What about splitting things up, just as X was split up
after the fork from XFree86? Joerg merged a lot of stuff
into cdrtools over the years. (mkisofs, cdda2wav, etc.)