From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-wr1-f67.google.com ([209.85.221.67]:37543 "EHLO mail-wr1-f67.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1728131AbeJLUMr (ORCPT ); Fri, 12 Oct 2018 16:12:47 -0400 Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2018 14:40:26 +0200 From: Pali =?utf-8?B?Um9ow6Fy?= To: Andreas Henriksson Cc: Jaroslav Skarvada , linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, util-linux@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, mpluskal@suse.com, base-system@gentoo.org, Andy Shevchenko , Karel Zak , Andreas Bombe , Andreas Bombe , Andreas Dilger , Richard Weinberger Subject: Re: Future of dosfstools project (FAT) Message-ID: <20181012124026.3v3b6v46hpszkgrt@pali> References: <20180929084038.an6pfhnsd6tblejl@pali> <20181002081654.jxesr3kj62snzez5@pali> <510499199.34825028.1538469850257.JavaMail.zimbra@redhat.com> <20181012091941.o22srnhse4kzqjhf@fatal.se> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <20181012091941.o22srnhse4kzqjhf@fatal.se> Sender: linux-fsdevel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Friday 12 October 2018 11:19:41 Andreas Henriksson wrote: > Hello everyone, > > On Tue, Oct 02, 2018 at 04:44:10AM -0400, Jaroslav Skarvada wrote: > > I am downstream maintainer of dosfstools in Fedora/RHEL. My personal opinion > > with such kind of projects is that one or two years without activity doesn't > > mean the project is dead. I don't know what happened with Andreas, but > > in case of no response my +1 for the GitHub fork. I think it's non offensive > > solution which can be easily reverted if needed. Please let me know if you do it > > It seems Andreas is a Debian Developer (like myself), so I used the > debian tooling for 'missing in action' (mia-query) and it seems > he is occationally active (but showing obvious signs of busyness). > > I even found his irc nick and found him online. I told him about this > mailing list thread and he replied that he has been extremely busy > with things in his personal life lately and said he should really > try to find some time to catch up with things, but since he hasn't > replied here I thought I'd just let you know about the situation. > Hopefully things calms down for him soon to allow him to catch up. > > I hope you find a good way to handle things in the mean time. More > people probably need to help out reviewing incoming issues/PRs and other > things that can help Andreas out with the maintenance burden, but with > his current lack of time it might be better if someone motivated and > capable just forks the project on github and starts doing the > maintenance work in the fork. If things works out well, maybe this gives > Andreas confidence he can safely hand over the official maintainer role > to someone with more time for it (and you can 'unfork' again). > > Regards, > Andreas Henriksson Ok, so it would be great if somebody can help Andreas with reviewing opened dosfstools pull requests on github... https://github.com/dosfstools/dosfstools/pulls -- Pali Rohár pali.rohar@gmail.com