Time to fork?

[tedivm]

This module is pretty popular- but it also doesn't appear to work for Puppet5, and hasn't had a new upgrade in years. Further its main developer appears to have abandoned it.

In the past others have volunteered to help maintain it. @saz volunteered in #55, and the idea of transferring this to @voxpupili came up in #59.

[alex-harvey-z3q]

@thias

[hdep]

Yes I think this is needed. this module is usefull for the community !

[bschonec]

I managed to get in contact with Matthias today and he's willing to donate the module to the Voxpupuli community. I'm not exactly sure how the process works. Anyone? Bueller?

[zilchms]

Just stumbled upon this. I can help you with the process. Or at least give some help and get the correct people into the loop :)
The process is documented at: https://voxpupuli.org/docs/migrate_module/
If you need anything more, let me know

[bschonec]

I asked the Voxpupuli folks about this a few months ago and someone told me that Voxpupuli already has a module that manages sysctl. He said there wouldn't be a reason to maintain two modules.

[zilchms]

Ah alright then. Never mind :)

[bschonec]

I sent an email to the project owner asking if he'd transfer ownership to a 3rd party. I'll update the issue if/when I hear back.

[bschonec]

@thias I sent another email to @thias to request Voxpupuli transfer.

[bschonec]

It looks like puppet-augeasproviders_sysctl is Voxpupuli's sysctl management tool.

[saz]

There are some differences in how things are behaving and I'd still say, this module should be forked by voxpupuli.