[Guessnet-devel] [svn] r127 - trunk

[Enrico Zini]

Author: enrico
Date: Sat Oct 22 17:36:56 2005
New Revision: 127

Modified:
   trunk/README
Log:
Added comments about maintainership


Modified: trunk/README
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--- trunk/README	(original)
+++ trunk/README	Sat Oct 22 17:36:56 2005
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@
 MARKETING
 TRIGGERING
 BUILDING
+MAINTAINING
 TODO
 DONE
 LINKS
@@ -254,7 +255,71 @@
 
 BUILDING
 ========
-automake1.8 was used.
+automake 1.9.6 was used.
+
+MAINTAINING
+===========
+
+Enrico is the main maintainer of guessnet, but he isn't the best person for it:
+he doesn't usually work with network protocols, he doesn't use all scan methods
+and he uses a limited amount of hardware.
+
+This means that Enrico could be good in gluing all the code together, but he
+can't do a good job alone with making sure that everything works everywhere or
+with implementing a fancy new scan method.  There is a need of more people with
+different needs and skills to work together.
+
+This section lists the various scan methods together with who is maintaining
+them and their status.
+
+
+'peer' scan
+-----------
+
+Maintained by Enrico and generally working, although one should send patches to
+get new features in and not rely on Enrico's low-level networking skills :)
+
+
+'pppoe' scan
+------------
+
+Currently unmaintained.  If you regularly use this, have a bit of technical
+skills and want to take care of it, please contact enrico at enricozini.org.
+
+
+'wifi' scans
+------------
+
+Currently unmaintained.
+
+This is currently implemented using external scripts, which are officially
+unmaintained besides some patch from Thomas Hood to fix the biggest issues.
+
+The scripts are sometimes interacting badly with the rest of guessnet (they
+bring the interface up and down while the rest of guessnet is doing the same).
+The best long-term course of action would be to use libiw-dev to implement the
+scripts' work inside guessnet.
+
+It is also unclear what would be the role of guessnet and what would be the
+role of waproamd.
+
+If you regularly use this, have the needed technical skills and want to take
+care of it, please contact enrico at enricozini.org.
+
+
+'missing link' scan
+-------------------
+
+Maintained by Enrico, but not working in some interfaces.
+
+
+'dhcp' scan
+-----------
+
+Just drafted and unmaintained.  If you have a good understanding of the DHCP
+protocol, please help in extending this.  Recognizing the DHCP server name in
+the reply, for example, would be a very useful feature.
+
 
 TODO
 ====