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[Marek Hajduczenia <mxhajduczenia@xxxxxxxxx>]

Thank you, Guruprasad

I will talk to the target team directly to see what the best approach would be. My problem with the https://gitlab.ibr.cs.tu-bs.de/nm/libsmi is that it does not seem to be maintained at all, with last changes showing 5+ years ago. I can try this route, if that is preferred.

Marek

From: Guruprasad Lakshmi Narayanan <guruprasad.ln@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tuesday, April 2, 2024 at 1:25 AM
To: mxhajduczenia@xxxxxxxxx <mxhajduczenia@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: launchpad-dev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <launchpad-dev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Launchpad-dev] Contributing code to libsmi
Hi Marek,

You have posted on the 'launchpad-dev' mailing list which is solely for discussing topics related to the development of Launchpad itself. As your question is unrelated to the development of Launchpad itself, the 'launchpad-users' mailing list (see https://launchpad.net/~launchpad-users) would have been a better place for posting this.

Now coming to your question,

On Tue, Apr 2, 2024 at 7:44 AM <mxhajduczenia@xxxxxxxxx<mailto:mxhajduczenia@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
I have code to contribute to the libsmi library. During the development of one of IEEE 802.3.1 standard revisions, a need for the configurable control of the line width became apparent to reprint existing MIBs into a line-width controlled format (via smidump). The parameter controlling the line width is hard coded right now so I have extended the existing parameter set with -w (--width) parametrization, which allows to set the line width for multiline printing function. I also had to rewrite the multiline printing function to properly account for whole word delimiters to provide a more visually acceptable output.

I have modified code available for review (there are in total 5-6 files I had to touch). The code is written in C and compiled on Ubuntu 22.04 with all latest libraries for test purposes.

I would like to submit it for consideration, but despite reading about the process for a few hours, I do not seem to be able to figure out how to create a pull request / where to submit a code.

Any pointers would be really appreciated. I know the code extension will be really usable.

https://www.ibr.cs.tu-bs.de/projects/libsmi/download.html mentions that the source code for the 'libsmi' project is maintained at https://gitlab.ibr.cs.tu-bs.de/nm/libsmi. So please go and submit your contributions for review there. Afaik, it is unlikely that feature changes like this one will be directly accepted into Debian/Ubuntu and the best way to get it into these distributions will be via the upstream project.

If you still insist on contributing this directly to Ubuntu, I would suggest getting in touch with the Ubuntu developers via the 'ubuntu-devel-discuss' mailing list (https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/Ubuntu-devel-discuss) or the #ubuntu-devel IRC channel on libera.chat.

We, the Launchpad team, are aware of the gaps in our user documentation on submitting code contributions to projects/distributions on Launchpad and have it in our plans to fix that soon.

Thanks,
Guruprasad
Launchpad team