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volkszaehler / vzlogger

Logging utility for various meters & sensors
http://wiki.volkszaehler.org/software/controller/vzlogger
GNU General Public License v3.0
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Future of OMS support #650

Open narc-Ontakac2 opened 6 months ago

narc-Ontakac2 commented 6 months ago

Since I noticed that the Debian packages lack OMS support I have been looking into libmbus. The good news is that it is packaged and the remaining packaging issues are doable with reasonable effort. The bad news is that it became increasingly unmaintained over the years. So I doubt that my pull request to improve packaging will ever be pulled.

So my question is if it would make sense to maintain a fork as part of he volkszaehler project.

r00t- commented 5 months ago

i have no idea how many of our users are using OMS, and i guess that's the only thing to base such a decision on. until https://github.com/volkszaehler/vzlogger/issues/642 i was almost not aware that it existed in vzlogger.

narc-Ontakac2 commented 5 months ago

There is now also #653. Looks like OMS is growing. Documents about the upcoming smart meter rollout also mention mbus.

narc-Ontakac2 commented 5 months ago

OMS is also and important reason to not remove install.sh ( #624).

narc-Ontakac2 commented 5 months ago

Looking closer at their pull requests it looks like the source code is getting a bit of maintenance while packaging and CI and the build are not. So a packaging fork might be an option.

narc-Ontakac2 commented 5 months ago

@justinotherguy If I get a forked repository of https://github.com/rscada/libmbus in the volkszaehler organization I can use that as a packaging repository. This will have a master branch that is never modified and a packaging branch (named vzlogger or debian).

justinotherguy commented 5 months ago

after a quick look the project seems somewhat stale to me, too - at least regarding the debian package efforts. I' went ahead and forked the repo: https://github.com/volkszaehler/libmbus

narc-Ontakac2 commented 5 months ago

@justinotherguy Thanks for that, could you give me the same permissions for libmbus that I have for libsml?

The project is not completely stale, but it seems they have completely given up on packaging.

narc-Ontakac2 commented 4 months ago

@justinotherguy I can push now, but I am missing privileges to deal with enviroments and actions: image image

justinotherguy commented 4 months ago

right - please give it another try now