application for Net_Traceroute maintainer-ship

From: Date: Wed, 19 Aug 2009 01:33:38 +0000
Subject: application for Net_Traceroute maintainer-ship
Groups: php.pear.qa 
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Greetings, Please consider this my formal request for maintainer-ship of the Net_Traceroute - yes, I know maintainer-ship isn't actually a word, but I think you get the point. :) Background: I've been on the internet since 1975 - /really/. I've spent the better part of it dealing with network related aspects. Initially, with ARPA-NET, then a BBS, where I was a co-developer for Bulletin Board System software - it made RIP graphics look /really/ bad, I'm proud to say. I also operated a fido-tosser (mail gateway) BBS <--> Internet. Since then I've written in every conceivable scripting language, as well as C/C++. I currently spend most of my time dealing with hosting (clients), DNS and their related services. I recently began evaluating CMS applications for the 50 domains, and several hundred hosts attached to them. The one I most recently examined, reminded me that I needed to update some of the online utilities I provide. The online Traceroute utility is the one that brought me to make this application - s when doing the prep work for my traceroute utility, I discovered that the Net_Traceroute package is no longer maintained. I'd love to take this opportunity to become it's new steward. If you haven't noticed, Ive been around for some time - point being, I'll not disappear anytime soon. So you can rest confident that should you nominate me for maintainer, this package /will/ continue to be maintained. :) My current thoughts for it's future, are ICMP, UDP, and TCP options. As well as providing several (more) /working/ examples. Thank you for all your time and consideration in this matter. --Chris P.S. I'm currently also subscribed to the pear-dev list.

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