Abandoning boinc-client

[Mattia Verga]

Hi all,
despite my efforts and many wasted hours I'm unable to build recent 
versions of boinc-client (I'm stuck with errors about gtk-2.0 and 
gtk-3.0 co-existence).
I'm only a co-maintainer, but the primary maintainer has abandoned the 
package to its fate long time ago (but he never orphaned it) and there 
are a lot of bugs that he never cared about. So, despite the fact that 
the package will not be orphaned, it will be de facto when I will 
abandon it.

It would be nice if someone more skilled can take some care to it. Apart 
from problems due to gtk-3.0, I think the way boinc-client works should 
be rethought: the daemon mode leads to many problems accessing GPU 
computing capabilities and detection of user activity in X. In my 
opinion boinc should be started by user and not by a system process and 
it must run project files into user home directory to allow more users 
on the same workstation.

Today I've made the last changes to clean up some stuff. I hope someone 
other has interest to take care of it.
Thank you

Mattia

[Philip Rhoades]

Mattia,


On 2014-11-21 05:21, Mattia Verga wrote:
>  Hi all,
>  despite my efforts and many wasted hours I'm unable to build recent
>  versions of boinc-client (I'm stuck with errors about gtk-2.0 and
>  gtk-3.0 co-existence).
>  I'm only a co-maintainer, but the primary maintainer has abandoned the
>  package to its fate long time ago (but he never orphaned it) and there
>  are a lot of bugs that he never cared about. So, despite the fact that
>  the package will not be orphaned, it will be de facto when I will
>  abandon it.
>  
>  It would be nice if someone more skilled can take some care to it.
>  Apart from problems due to gtk-3.0, I think the way boinc-client works
>  should be rethought: the daemon mode leads to many problems accessing
>  GPU computing capabilities and detection of user activity in X. In my
>  opinion boinc should be started by user and not by a system process
>  and it must run project files into user home directory to allow more
>  users on the same workstation.
>  
>  Today I've made the last changes to clean up some stuff. I hope
>  someone other has interest to take care of it.
>  Thank you 

The boinc-client problems on recent versions of Fedora have been driving 
me crazy! - I have drastically reduced the amount of stuff I do for 
BOINC because of it.  It is a bit sad - I would really like to do more 
NOT LESS for BOINC!  Maybe when I get myself a new workstation I will 
leave the old machine running as the server without X etc and not have 
to worry about boinc-client driving me crazy . .

Thanks for the work you have done to date anyway - I appreciate it.

Regards,

Phil.

-- 
Philip Rhoades

GPO Box 3411
Sydney NSW	2001
Australia
E-mail:  phil(a)pricom.com.au

[Germano Massullo]

Hi Mattia. Thank you for your work.
For various reasons I am in contact with the mantainer on Debian
(Gianfranco Costamagna). Weeks ago he saw the Fedora commits for BOINC
and he told me that he was working on same problems too (but on Debian
they have done more fixes).
As soon as possible I will try if it is possible to adapt Debian's BOINC
code into Fedora and do some tests. If the software will work, I could
became a co mantainer and consider to work together with Gianfranco.

[Mattia Verga]

Hi Germano,
it would be nice if you can become a co maintainer. Gianfranco contacted 
me some time ago, but I was overwhelmed by work in that time and I 
couldn't work with him.

If you want contact me directly to talk about current problems of boinc 
in fedora (so I can write in italian in half time what I can write in 
english....).

Mattia

Il 26/11/2014 10:47, Germano Massullo ha scritto:
>  Hi Mattia. Thank you for your work.
>  For various reasons I am in contact with the mantainer on Debian
>  (Gianfranco Costamagna). Weeks ago he saw the Fedora commits for BOINC
>  and he told me that he was working on same problems too (but on Debian
>  they have done more fixes).
>  As soon as possible I will try if it is possible to adapt Debian's BOINC
>  code into Fedora and do some tests. If the software will work, I could
>  became a co mantainer and consider to work together with Gianfranco.
>