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[Alkis Georgopoulos <912884@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> After a great push up of epoptes, the development of epoptes seem to
have stuck since last month. there is no code update since then ...

We (the epoptes developers) align our efforts with Ubuntu LTS versions. 
When the 0.5.3 version was released (the one shipped with Ubuntu 12.04), there were no bugs at all in the bug tracker page (https://bugs.launchpad.net/epoptes), we had fixed all of them after months of user feedback. And the few new ones since then are mostly small feature requests. It's a rather stable version with more features than iTalc and which should suffice until the next big round of code updates in epoptes.

We now work full time on LTSP (http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~ltsp-upstream/ltsp/ltsp-trunk/changes), mostly to make it possible for an LTSP server to function without a chroot at all, making its maintenance much, much easier for schools and for cases where no specialized sysadmin is available,
and on a user management tool for schools, because we found noone that matches our needs (mass user creation, import/export from .csv, shared folder creation...). Those 2 tools are currently needed by schools a lot more than the few newly requested epoptes features.

In the end of this summer those tools will be finished, and we'll shift
our focus on epoptes once more. Major features (not even requested in
the bug tracker) that we'll try to address is multicasting (which should
speed up screen broadcasting more than 10 times), using libvncserver +
libvncclient instead of using external VNC programs, epoptes-client
reconnections etc, see the roadmap page.

So no, there's no need to worry about epoptes being unmaintained in the
next ...couple of decades, as the main page says we use it ourselves
daily so we'll only consider dropping support for it if another tool
emerges that does more than epoptes does (and is well maintained etc
etc).

> Having two choices is better than having one... up for having italc2
package under debian/ubuntu

I totally agree with that part. :)

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