* Future of dosfstools project (FAT) @ 2018-09-29 8:40 Pali Rohár 2018-10-01 20:00 ` Andreas Dilger 0 siblings, 1 reply; 23+ messages in thread From: Pali Rohár @ 2018-09-29 8:40 UTC (permalink / raw) To: linux-fsdevel, util-linux, linux-kernel Cc: Andy Shevchenko, Karel Zak, Andreas Bombe, Andreas Bombe [-- Attachment #1: Type: text/plain, Size: 1750 bytes --] Hi! Last year I did some research how Windows and Linux tools handle FAT labels (boot sector vs root directory) and proposed some unification. More in thread: https://www.spinics.net/lists/kernel/msg2640891.html My proposed change for manipulating with FAT labels is now implemented in util-linux v2.33, prepared new mtools version, and also in dosfstools git (unreleased) https://www.spinics.net/lists/kernel/msg2645732.html Project dosfstools contains de-facto standard Linux userspace tools for FAT filesystems (mkfs.fat, fsck.fat, fatlabel) and so it is quite important because of high usage of FAT. But there was no new release of dosfstools since Jan 2017 and for more then month I'm unsuccessfully try to contact maintainer of dosfstools project (Andreas) about future of project itself. I do not know what happened, if either Andreas do not have time or something else... So does somebody know what is state of dosfstools project? Also there are lot of proposed changes (with patches) for this project https://github.com/dosfstools/dosfstools/pulls and also more reported bugs https://github.com/dosfstools/dosfstools/issues If Andreas does not have time, can somebody else at least look at pull requests and do some code review? I have some other unpublished/unfinished changes for dosfstools, but I do not know now if it make sense to invest more time in this project when maintainer does not respond... if this project is active or going to be dead... If dosfstools is going to be inactive/dead, there is still mtools project with provides FAT tools too and maintainer of it is now preparing new bugfix version. So at least some alternative exists. -- Pali Rohár pali.rohar@gmail.com [-- Attachment #2: signature.asc --] [-- Type: application/pgp-signature, Size: 195 bytes --] ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 23+ messages in thread
* Re: Future of dosfstools project (FAT) 2018-09-29 8:40 Future of dosfstools project (FAT) Pali Rohár @ 2018-10-01 20:00 ` Andreas Dilger 2018-10-01 20:13 ` Richard Weinberger 2018-10-01 20:14 ` Pali Rohár 0 siblings, 2 replies; 23+ messages in thread From: Andreas Dilger @ 2018-10-01 20:00 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Pali Rohár Cc: linux-fsdevel, util-linux, Linux Kernel Mailing List, Andy Shevchenko, Karel Zak, Andreas Bombe, Andreas Bombe [-- Attachment #1: Type: text/plain, Size: 2186 bytes --] On Sep 29, 2018, at 2:40 AM, Pali Rohár <pali.rohar@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi! > > Last year I did some research how Windows and Linux tools handle FAT > labels (boot sector vs root directory) and proposed some unification. > More in thread: https://www.spinics.net/lists/kernel/msg2640891.html > > My proposed change for manipulating with FAT labels is now implemented > in util-linux v2.33, prepared new mtools version, and also in dosfstools > git (unreleased) https://www.spinics.net/lists/kernel/msg2645732.html > > Project dosfstools contains de-facto standard Linux userspace tools for > FAT filesystems (mkfs.fat, fsck.fat, fatlabel) and so it is quite > important because of high usage of FAT. > > But there was no new release of dosfstools since Jan 2017 and for more > then month I'm unsuccessfully try to contact maintainer of dosfstools > project (Andreas) about future of project itself. > > I do not know what happened, if either Andreas do not have time or > something else... > > So does somebody know what is state of dosfstools project? > > Also there are lot of proposed changes (with patches) for this project > https://github.com/dosfstools/dosfstools/pulls and also more reported > bugs https://github.com/dosfstools/dosfstools/issues > > If Andreas does not have time, can somebody else at least look at pull > requests and do some code review? > > I have some other unpublished/unfinished changes for dosfstools, but I > do not know now if it make sense to invest more time in this project > when maintainer does not respond... if this project is active or going > to be dead... > > If dosfstools is going to be inactive/dead, there is still mtools > project with provides FAT tools too and maintainer of it is now > preparing new bugfix version. So at least some alternative exists. If the current dosfstools maintainer is non-responsive, you could always fork the project in GitHub, land the critical patches into your branch, and make a release on your own. If the maintainer surfaces again, then they can pull in your patches. If not, then you are the new maintainer. Cheers, Andreas [-- Attachment #2: Message signed with OpenPGP --] [-- Type: application/pgp-signature, Size: 873 bytes --] ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 23+ messages in thread
* Re: Future of dosfstools project (FAT) 2018-10-01 20:00 ` Andreas Dilger @ 2018-10-01 20:13 ` Richard Weinberger 2018-10-02 8:16 ` Pali Rohár 2018-10-02 9:36 ` Karel Zak 2018-10-01 20:14 ` Pali Rohár 1 sibling, 2 replies; 23+ messages in thread From: Richard Weinberger @ 2018-10-01 20:13 UTC (permalink / raw) To: adilger Cc: Pali Rohár, linux-fsdevel, util-linux, LKML, andy.shevchenko, Karel Zak, aeb, andreas.bombe On Mon, Oct 1, 2018 at 10:01 PM Andreas Dilger <adilger@dilger.ca> wrote: > If the current dosfstools maintainer is non-responsive, you could always > fork the project in GitHub, land the critical patches into your branch, > and make a release on your own. If the maintainer surfaces again, then > they can pull in your patches. If not, then you are the new maintainer. I also recommend talking to package maintainers of major distros. Maybe one of them forked the project already and did what you plan to do. In any case, let's try to avoid a drama like util-linux-ng was. -- Thanks, //richard ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 23+ messages in thread
* Re: Future of dosfstools project (FAT) 2018-10-01 20:13 ` Richard Weinberger @ 2018-10-02 8:16 ` Pali Rohár 2018-10-02 8:44 ` Jaroslav Skarvada 2018-10-02 9:36 ` Karel Zak 1 sibling, 1 reply; 23+ messages in thread From: Pali Rohár @ 2018-10-02 8:16 UTC (permalink / raw) To: linux-fsdevel, util-linux, linux-kernel, Jaroslav Škarvada, mpluskal, base-system Cc: Andy Shevchenko, Karel Zak, Andreas Bombe, Andreas Bombe, Andreas Dilger, Richard Weinberger On Monday 01 October 2018 22:13:41 Richard Weinberger wrote: > On Mon, Oct 1, 2018 at 10:01 PM Andreas Dilger <adilger@dilger.ca> wrote: > > If the current dosfstools maintainer is non-responsive, you could always > > fork the project in GitHub, land the critical patches into your branch, > > and make a release on your own. If the maintainer surfaces again, then > > they can pull in your patches. If not, then you are the new maintainer. >- > I also recommend talking to package maintainers of major distros. > Maybe one of them forked the project already and did what you plan to do. >- > In any case, let's try to avoid a drama like util-linux-ng was. Based on Richard's comment, I'm forwarding my original email (below) to the Fedora, Suse and Gentoo maintainers. On Saturday 29 September 2018 10:40:38 Pali Rohár wrote: > Hi! > > Last year I did some research how Windows and Linux tools handle FAT > labels (boot sector vs root directory) and proposed some unification. > More in thread: https://www.spinics.net/lists/kernel/msg2640891.html > > My proposed change for manipulating with FAT labels is now implemented > in util-linux v2.33, prepared new mtools version, and also in dosfstools > git (unreleased) https://www.spinics.net/lists/kernel/msg2645732.html > > Project dosfstools contains de-facto standard Linux userspace tools for > FAT filesystems (mkfs.fat, fsck.fat, fatlabel) and so it is quite > important because of high usage of FAT. > > But there was no new release of dosfstools since Jan 2017 and for more > then month I'm unsuccessfully try to contact maintainer of dosfstools > project (Andreas) about future of project itself. > > I do not know what happened, if either Andreas do not have time or > something else... > > So does somebody know what is state of dosfstools project? > > Also there are lot of proposed changes (with patches) for this project > https://github.com/dosfstools/dosfstools/pulls and also more reported > bugs https://github.com/dosfstools/dosfstools/issues > > If Andreas does not have time, can somebody else at least look at pull > requests and do some code review? > > I have some other unpublished/unfinished changes for dosfstools, but I > do not know now if it make sense to invest more time in this project > when maintainer does not respond... if this project is active or going > to be dead... > > If dosfstools is going to be inactive/dead, there is still mtools > project with provides FAT tools too and maintainer of it is now > preparing new bugfix version. So at least some alternative exists. -- Pali Rohár pali.rohar@gmail.com ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 23+ messages in thread
* Re: Future of dosfstools project (FAT) 2018-10-02 8:16 ` Pali Rohár @ 2018-10-02 8:44 ` Jaroslav Skarvada 2018-10-12 9:19 ` Andreas Henriksson 0 siblings, 1 reply; 23+ messages in thread From: Jaroslav Skarvada @ 2018-10-02 8:44 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Pali Rohár Cc: linux-fsdevel, util-linux, linux-kernel, mpluskal, base-system, Andy Shevchenko, Karel Zak, Andreas Bombe, Andreas Bombe, Andreas Dilger, Richard Weinberger ----- Original Message ----- > On Monday 01 October 2018 22:13:41 Richard Weinberger wrote: > > On Mon, Oct 1, 2018 at 10:01 PM Andreas Dilger <adilger@dilger.ca> wrote: > > > If the current dosfstools maintainer is non-responsive, you could always > > > fork the project in GitHub, land the critical patches into your branch, > > > and make a release on your own. If the maintainer surfaces again, then > > > they can pull in your patches. If not, then you are the new maintainer. > >- > > I also recommend talking to package maintainers of major distros. > > Maybe one of them forked the project already and did what you plan to do. > >- > > In any case, let's try to avoid a drama like util-linux-ng was. > > Based on Richard's comment, I'm forwarding my original email (below) to > the Fedora, Suse and Gentoo maintainers. > > On Saturday 29 September 2018 10:40:38 Pali Rohár wrote: > > Hi! > > > > Last year I did some research how Windows and Linux tools handle FAT > > labels (boot sector vs root directory) and proposed some unification. > > More in thread: https://www.spinics.net/lists/kernel/msg2640891.html > > > > My proposed change for manipulating with FAT labels is now implemented > > in util-linux v2.33, prepared new mtools version, and also in dosfstools > > git (unreleased) https://www.spinics.net/lists/kernel/msg2645732.html > > > > Project dosfstools contains de-facto standard Linux userspace tools for > > FAT filesystems (mkfs.fat, fsck.fat, fatlabel) and so it is quite > > important because of high usage of FAT. > > > > But there was no new release of dosfstools since Jan 2017 and for more > > then month I'm unsuccessfully try to contact maintainer of dosfstools > > project (Andreas) about future of project itself. > > > > I do not know what happened, if either Andreas do not have time or > > something else... > > > > So does somebody know what is state of dosfstools project? > > > > Also there are lot of proposed changes (with patches) for this project > > https://github.com/dosfstools/dosfstools/pulls and also more reported > > bugs https://github.com/dosfstools/dosfstools/issues > > > > If Andreas does not have time, can somebody else at least look at pull > > requests and do some code review? > > > > I have some other unpublished/unfinished changes for dosfstools, but I > > do not know now if it make sense to invest more time in this project > > when maintainer does not respond... if this project is active or going > > to be dead... > > > > If dosfstools is going to be inactive/dead, there is still mtools > > project with provides FAT tools too and maintainer of it is now > > preparing new bugfix version. So at least some alternative exists. > > -- > Pali Rohár > pali.rohar@gmail.com > Hi, 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 thanks & regards Jaroslav ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 23+ messages in thread
* Re: Future of dosfstools project (FAT) 2018-10-02 8:44 ` Jaroslav Skarvada @ 2018-10-12 9:19 ` Andreas Henriksson 2018-10-12 12:40 ` Pali Rohár 2018-11-14 11:33 ` Pali Rohár 0 siblings, 2 replies; 23+ messages in thread From: Andreas Henriksson @ 2018-10-12 9:19 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Jaroslav Skarvada Cc: Pali Rohár, linux-fsdevel, util-linux, linux-kernel, mpluskal, base-system, Andy Shevchenko, Karel Zak, Andreas Bombe, Andreas Bombe, Andreas Dilger, Richard Weinberger 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 ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 23+ messages in thread
* Re: Future of dosfstools project (FAT) 2018-10-12 9:19 ` Andreas Henriksson @ 2018-10-12 12:40 ` Pali Rohár 2018-10-12 14:35 ` Doug Goldstein 2018-11-14 11:33 ` Pali Rohár 1 sibling, 1 reply; 23+ messages in thread From: Pali Rohár @ 2018-10-12 12:40 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Andreas Henriksson Cc: Jaroslav Skarvada, linux-fsdevel, util-linux, linux-kernel, mpluskal, base-system, Andy Shevchenko, Karel Zak, Andreas Bombe, Andreas Bombe, Andreas Dilger, Richard Weinberger 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 ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 23+ messages in thread
* Re: Future of dosfstools project (FAT) 2018-10-12 12:40 ` Pali Rohár @ 2018-10-12 14:35 ` Doug Goldstein 0 siblings, 0 replies; 23+ messages in thread From: Doug Goldstein @ 2018-10-12 14:35 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Pali Rohár Cc: Andreas Henriksson, Jaroslav Skarvada, linux-fsdevel, util-linux, linux-kernel, mpluskal, base-system, Andy Shevchenko, Karel Zak, Andreas Bombe, Andreas Bombe, Andreas Dilger, Richard Weinberger > On Oct 12, 2018, at 7:40 AM, Pali Rohár <pali.rohar@gmail.com> wrote: > >> 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 Rather than fork it could he give someone access as a maintainer to the existing project? ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 23+ messages in thread
* Re: Future of dosfstools project (FAT) 2018-10-12 9:19 ` Andreas Henriksson 2018-10-12 12:40 ` Pali Rohár @ 2018-11-14 11:33 ` Pali Rohár [not found] ` <CAPXf_qN66-Mi+o+9ENGqCDe-_2tHaf9uM3moRcCGNvmxwH3ExQ@mail.gmail.com> 1 sibling, 1 reply; 23+ messages in thread From: Pali Rohár @ 2018-11-14 11:33 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Andreas Henriksson Cc: Jaroslav Skarvada, linux-fsdevel, util-linux, linux-kernel, mpluskal, base-system, Andy Shevchenko, Karel Zak, Andreas Bombe, Andreas Bombe, Andreas Dilger, Richard Weinberger 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. Hi! One more month passed. Do you have some news? Probably when Andreas can look at pending patches? And... has somebody else time to look at those pending patches and do some initial review? I would really appreciate if somebody look and comment them. There are 14 open pull requests: https://github.com/dosfstools/dosfstools/pulls > 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 -- Pali Rohár pali.rohar@gmail.com ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 23+ messages in thread
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* Re: Future of dosfstools project (FAT) [not found] ` <CAPXf_qN66-Mi+o+9ENGqCDe-_2tHaf9uM3moRcCGNvmxwH3ExQ@mail.gmail.com> @ 2018-12-06 8:38 ` Pali Rohár 2018-12-12 13:57 ` Pali Rohár 0 siblings, 1 reply; 23+ messages in thread From: Pali Rohár @ 2018-12-06 8:38 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Andreas Bombe Cc: Andreas Henriksson, Jaroslav Skarvada, linux-fsdevel, util-linux, linux-kernel, mpluskal, base-system, Andy Shevchenko, Karel Zak, Andreas Bombe, Andreas Dilger, Richard Weinberger On Thursday 06 December 2018 01:53:02 Andreas Bombe wrote: > Pali Rohár <pali.rohar@gmail.com> schrieb am Mi., 14. Nov. 2018 um > 12:33 Uhr: > > > And... has somebody else time to look at those pending patches and do > > some initial review? I would really appreciate if somebody look and > > comment them. > > > > There are 14 open pull requests: > > https://github.com/dosfstools/dosfstools/pulls > > > I'll spend time on this again. It would help if you could make a list of > higher priority PRs you would like see being looked at first. So.. here is some list: https://github.com/dosfstools/dosfstools/pull/92 https://github.com/dosfstools/dosfstools/pull/93 https://github.com/dosfstools/dosfstools/pull/94 https://github.com/dosfstools/dosfstools/pull/101 https://github.com/dosfstools/dosfstools/pull/104 https://github.com/dosfstools/dosfstools/pull/84 -- Pali Rohár pali.rohar@gmail.com ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 23+ messages in thread
* Re: Future of dosfstools project (FAT) 2018-12-06 8:38 ` Pali Rohár @ 2018-12-12 13:57 ` Pali Rohár 2018-12-17 9:50 ` Pali Rohár 0 siblings, 1 reply; 23+ messages in thread From: Pali Rohár @ 2018-12-12 13:57 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Andreas Bombe Cc: Andreas Henriksson, Jaroslav Skarvada, linux-fsdevel, util-linux, linux-kernel, mpluskal, base-system, Andy Shevchenko, Karel Zak, Andreas Bombe, Andreas Dilger, Richard Weinberger [-- Attachment #1: Type: text/plain, Size: 1143 bytes --] On Thursday 06 December 2018 09:38:28 Pali Rohár wrote: > On Thursday 06 December 2018 01:53:02 Andreas Bombe wrote: > > Pali Rohár <pali.rohar@gmail.com> schrieb am Mi., 14. Nov. 2018 um > > 12:33 Uhr: > > > > > And... has somebody else time to look at those pending patches and do > > > some initial review? I would really appreciate if somebody look and > > > comment them. > > > > > > There are 14 open pull requests: > > > https://github.com/dosfstools/dosfstools/pulls > > > > > > I'll spend time on this again. It would help if you could make a list of > > higher priority PRs you would like see being looked at first. > > So.. here is some list: > > https://github.com/dosfstools/dosfstools/pull/92 > https://github.com/dosfstools/dosfstools/pull/93 > https://github.com/dosfstools/dosfstools/pull/94 > https://github.com/dosfstools/dosfstools/pull/101 > https://github.com/dosfstools/dosfstools/pull/104 > https://github.com/dosfstools/dosfstools/pull/84 Maybe you can start with Year 2038 problem in PR 94: https://github.com/dosfstools/dosfstools/pull/94 -- Pali Rohár pali.rohar@gmail.com [-- Attachment #2: signature.asc --] [-- Type: application/pgp-signature, Size: 195 bytes --] ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 23+ messages in thread
* Re: Future of dosfstools project (FAT) 2018-12-12 13:57 ` Pali Rohár @ 2018-12-17 9:50 ` Pali Rohár 2018-12-27 22:17 ` Pali Rohár 0 siblings, 1 reply; 23+ messages in thread From: Pali Rohár @ 2018-12-17 9:50 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Andreas Bombe Cc: Andreas Henriksson, Jaroslav Skarvada, linux-fsdevel, util-linux, linux-kernel, mpluskal, base-system, Andy Shevchenko, Karel Zak, Andreas Bombe, Andreas Dilger, Richard Weinberger [-- Attachment #1: Type: text/plain, Size: 1321 bytes --] On Wednesday 12 December 2018 14:57:36 Pali Rohár wrote: > On Thursday 06 December 2018 09:38:28 Pali Rohár wrote: > > On Thursday 06 December 2018 01:53:02 Andreas Bombe wrote: > > > Pali Rohár <pali.rohar@gmail.com> schrieb am Mi., 14. Nov. 2018 um > > > 12:33 Uhr: > > > > > > > And... has somebody else time to look at those pending patches and do > > > > some initial review? I would really appreciate if somebody look and > > > > comment them. > > > > > > > > There are 14 open pull requests: > > > > https://github.com/dosfstools/dosfstools/pulls > > > > > > > > > I'll spend time on this again. It would help if you could make a list of > > > higher priority PRs you would like see being looked at first. > > > > So.. here is some list: > > > > https://github.com/dosfstools/dosfstools/pull/92 > > https://github.com/dosfstools/dosfstools/pull/93 > > https://github.com/dosfstools/dosfstools/pull/94 > > https://github.com/dosfstools/dosfstools/pull/101 > > https://github.com/dosfstools/dosfstools/pull/104 > > https://github.com/dosfstools/dosfstools/pull/84 > > Maybe you can start with Year 2038 problem in PR 94: > https://github.com/dosfstools/dosfstools/pull/94 Thanks for review of #94! As next you can take #92 from list. -- Pali Rohár pali.rohar@gmail.com [-- Attachment #2: signature.asc --] [-- Type: application/pgp-signature, Size: 195 bytes --] ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 23+ messages in thread
* Re: Future of dosfstools project (FAT) 2018-12-17 9:50 ` Pali Rohár @ 2018-12-27 22:17 ` Pali Rohár 2019-01-08 15:32 ` Andy Shevchenko 0 siblings, 1 reply; 23+ messages in thread From: Pali Rohár @ 2018-12-27 22:17 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Andreas Bombe Cc: Andreas Henriksson, Jaroslav Skarvada, linux-fsdevel, util-linux, linux-kernel, mpluskal, base-system, Andy Shevchenko, Karel Zak, Andreas Bombe, Andreas Dilger, Richard Weinberger On Monday 17 December 2018 10:50:04 Pali Rohár wrote: > On Wednesday 12 December 2018 14:57:36 Pali Rohár wrote: > > On Thursday 06 December 2018 09:38:28 Pali Rohár wrote: > > > On Thursday 06 December 2018 01:53:02 Andreas Bombe wrote: > > > > Pali Rohár <pali.rohar@gmail.com> schrieb am Mi., 14. Nov. 2018 um > > > > 12:33 Uhr: > > > > > > > > > And... has somebody else time to look at those pending patches and do > > > > > some initial review? I would really appreciate if somebody look and > > > > > comment them. > > > > > > > > > > There are 14 open pull requests: > > > > > https://github.com/dosfstools/dosfstools/pulls > > > > > > > > > > > > I'll spend time on this again. It would help if you could make a list of > > > > higher priority PRs you would like see being looked at first. > > > > > > So.. here is some list: > > > > > > https://github.com/dosfstools/dosfstools/pull/92 > > > https://github.com/dosfstools/dosfstools/pull/93 > > > https://github.com/dosfstools/dosfstools/pull/94 > > > https://github.com/dosfstools/dosfstools/pull/101 > > > https://github.com/dosfstools/dosfstools/pull/104 > > > https://github.com/dosfstools/dosfstools/pull/84 > > > > Maybe you can start with Year 2038 problem in PR 94: > > https://github.com/dosfstools/dosfstools/pull/94 > > Thanks for review of #94! As next you can take #92 from list. Andreas, can you look at next pull requests? -- Pali Rohár pali.rohar@gmail.com ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 23+ messages in thread
* Re: Future of dosfstools project (FAT) 2018-12-27 22:17 ` Pali Rohár @ 2019-01-08 15:32 ` Andy Shevchenko 2019-01-08 15:39 ` Richard Weinberger 2019-02-09 15:40 ` Pali Rohár 0 siblings, 2 replies; 23+ messages in thread From: Andy Shevchenko @ 2019-01-08 15:32 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Pali Rohár Cc: Andreas Bombe, Andreas Henriksson, Jaroslav Skarvada, Linux FS Devel, util-linux, Linux Kernel Mailing List, mpluskal, base-system, Karel Zak, Andreas Bombe, Andreas Dilger, Richard Weinberger On Fri, Dec 28, 2018 at 12:18 AM Pali Rohár <pali.rohar@gmail.com> wrote: > On Monday 17 December 2018 10:50:04 Pali Rohár wrote: > > On Wednesday 12 December 2018 14:57:36 Pali Rohár wrote: > > Thanks for review of #94! As next you can take #92 from list. > > Andreas, can you look at next pull requests? Looking from a side how slow this is being processed I think the best option to fork and abandon the old project if author / maintainer by some reason wouldn't like to give a push rights. -- With Best Regards, Andy Shevchenko ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 23+ messages in thread
* Re: Future of dosfstools project (FAT) 2019-01-08 15:32 ` Andy Shevchenko @ 2019-01-08 15:39 ` Richard Weinberger 2019-01-14 15:17 ` Pali Rohár 2019-02-09 15:40 ` Pali Rohár 1 sibling, 1 reply; 23+ messages in thread From: Richard Weinberger @ 2019-01-08 15:39 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Andy Shevchenko Cc: Pali Rohár, Andreas Bombe, Andreas Henriksson, Jaroslav Skarvada, Linux FS Devel, util-linux, Linux Kernel Mailing List, mpluskal, base-system, Karel Zak, Andreas Bombe, Andreas Dilger Am Dienstag, 8. Januar 2019, 16:32:55 CET schrieb Andy Shevchenko: > On Fri, Dec 28, 2018 at 12:18 AM Pali Roh�r <pali.rohar@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Monday 17 December 2018 10:50:04 Pali Roh�r wrote: > > > On Wednesday 12 December 2018 14:57:36 Pali Roh�r wrote: > > > > Thanks for review of #94! As next you can take #92 from list. > > > > Andreas, can you look at next pull requests? > > Looking from a side how slow this is being processed I think the best > option to fork and abandon the old project if author / maintainer by > some reason wouldn't like to give a push rights. +1 Thanks, //richard ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 23+ messages in thread
* Re: Future of dosfstools project (FAT) 2019-01-08 15:39 ` Richard Weinberger @ 2019-01-14 15:17 ` Pali Rohár 2019-01-14 15:17 ` Pali Rohár 2019-01-14 15:19 ` Richard Weinberger 0 siblings, 2 replies; 23+ messages in thread From: Pali Rohár @ 2019-01-14 15:17 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Richard Weinberger Cc: Andy Shevchenko, Andreas Bombe, Andreas Henriksson, Jaroslav Skarvada, Linux FS Devel, util-linux, Linux Kernel Mailing List, mpluskal, base-system, Karel Zak, Andreas Bombe, Andreas Dilger On Tuesday 08 January 2019 16:39:04 Richard Weinberger wrote: > Am Dienstag, 8. Januar 2019, 16:32:55 CET schrieb Andy Shevchenko: > > On Fri, Dec 28, 2018 at 12:18 AM Pali Rohár <pali.rohar@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On Monday 17 December 2018 10:50:04 Pali Rohár wrote: > > > > On Wednesday 12 December 2018 14:57:36 Pali Rohár wrote: > > > > > > Thanks for review of #94! As next you can take #92 from list. > > > > > > Andreas, can you look at next pull requests? > > > > Looking from a side how slow this is being processed I think the best > > option to fork and abandon the old project if author / maintainer by > > some reason wouldn't like to give a push rights. > > +1 I really do not want to create fork or become new "maintainer" of this project. If somebody else want to take project or create fork, I can prepare patches and send them to new place. But still I would like to see code review of patches from other people. dosfstools is a project which is used by lot of people and is de-facto standard for FAT32 Linux support. So breaking something should be prevented as much as possible. Richard or Andy, if Andreas really do not have time for dosfstools, what about you to take maintenance of dosfstools? -- Pali Rohár pali.rohar@gmail.com ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 23+ messages in thread
* Re: Future of dosfstools project (FAT) 2019-01-14 15:17 ` Pali Rohár @ 2019-01-14 15:17 ` Pali Rohár 2019-01-14 15:19 ` Richard Weinberger 1 sibling, 0 replies; 23+ messages in thread From: Pali Rohár @ 2019-01-14 15:17 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Richard Weinberger Cc: Andy Shevchenko, Andreas Bombe, Andreas Henriksson, Jaroslav Skarvada, Linux FS Devel, util-linux, Linux Kernel Mailing List, mpluskal, base-system, Karel Zak, Andreas Bombe, Andreas Dilger On Tuesday 08 January 2019 16:39:04 Richard Weinberger wrote: > Am Dienstag, 8. Januar 2019, 16:32:55 CET schrieb Andy Shevchenko: > > On Fri, Dec 28, 2018 at 12:18 AM Pali Rohár <pali.rohar@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On Monday 17 December 2018 10:50:04 Pali Rohár wrote: > > > > On Wednesday 12 December 2018 14:57:36 Pali Rohár wrote: > > > > > > Thanks for review of #94! As next you can take #92 from list. > > > > > > Andreas, can you look at next pull requests? > > > > Looking from a side how slow this is being processed I think the best > > option to fork and abandon the old project if author / maintainer by > > some reason wouldn't like to give a push rights. > > +1 I really do not want to create fork or become new "maintainer" of this project. If somebody else want to take project or create fork, I can prepare patches and send them to new place. But still I would like to see code review of patches from other people. dosfstools is a project which is used by lot of people and is de-facto standard for FAT32 Linux support. So breaking something should be prevented as much as possible. Richard or Andy, if Andreas really do not have time for dosfstools, what about you to take maintenance of dosfstools? -- Pali Rohár pali.rohar@gmail.com ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 23+ messages in thread
* Re: Future of dosfstools project (FAT) 2019-01-14 15:17 ` Pali Rohár 2019-01-14 15:17 ` Pali Rohár @ 2019-01-14 15:19 ` Richard Weinberger 2019-01-14 15:19 ` Richard Weinberger 1 sibling, 1 reply; 23+ messages in thread From: Richard Weinberger @ 2019-01-14 15:19 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Pali Rohár Cc: Andy Shevchenko, Andreas Bombe, Andreas Henriksson, Jaroslav Skarvada, Linux FS Devel, util-linux, Linux Kernel Mailing List, mpluskal, base-system, Karel Zak, Andreas Bombe, Andreas Dilger Am Montag, 14. Januar 2019, 16:17:09 CET schrieb Pali Rohár: > On Tuesday 08 January 2019 16:39:04 Richard Weinberger wrote: > > Am Dienstag, 8. Januar 2019, 16:32:55 CET schrieb Andy Shevchenko: > > > On Fri, Dec 28, 2018 at 12:18 AM Pali Rohár <pali.rohar@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > On Monday 17 December 2018 10:50:04 Pali Rohár wrote: > > > > > On Wednesday 12 December 2018 14:57:36 Pali Rohár wrote: > > > > > > > > Thanks for review of #94! As next you can take #92 from list. > > > > > > > > Andreas, can you look at next pull requests? > > > > > > Looking from a side how slow this is being processed I think the best > > > option to fork and abandon the old project if author / maintainer by > > > some reason wouldn't like to give a push rights. > > > > +1 > > I really do not want to create fork or become new "maintainer" of this > project. > > If somebody else want to take project or create fork, I can prepare > patches and send them to new place. But still I would like to see code > review of patches from other people. dosfstools is a project which is > used by lot of people and is de-facto standard for FAT32 Linux support. > So breaking something should be prevented as much as possible. > > Richard or Andy, if Andreas really do not have time for dosfstools, what > about you to take maintenance of dosfstools? The golden rule is: touch it, own it. You touched it, sorry. ;-) Thanks, //richard ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 23+ messages in thread
* Re: Future of dosfstools project (FAT) 2019-01-14 15:19 ` Richard Weinberger @ 2019-01-14 15:19 ` Richard Weinberger 0 siblings, 0 replies; 23+ messages in thread From: Richard Weinberger @ 2019-01-14 15:19 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Pali Rohár Cc: Andy Shevchenko, Andreas Bombe, Andreas Henriksson, Jaroslav Skarvada, Linux FS Devel, util-linux, Linux Kernel Mailing List, mpluskal, base-system, Karel Zak, Andreas Bombe, Andreas Dilger Am Montag, 14. Januar 2019, 16:17:09 CET schrieb Pali Rohár: > On Tuesday 08 January 2019 16:39:04 Richard Weinberger wrote: > > Am Dienstag, 8. Januar 2019, 16:32:55 CET schrieb Andy Shevchenko: > > > On Fri, Dec 28, 2018 at 12:18 AM Pali Rohár <pali.rohar@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > On Monday 17 December 2018 10:50:04 Pali Rohár wrote: > > > > > On Wednesday 12 December 2018 14:57:36 Pali Rohár wrote: > > > > > > > > Thanks for review of #94! As next you can take #92 from list. > > > > > > > > Andreas, can you look at next pull requests? > > > > > > Looking from a side how slow this is being processed I think the best > > > option to fork and abandon the old project if author / maintainer by > > > some reason wouldn't like to give a push rights. > > > > +1 > > I really do not want to create fork or become new "maintainer" of this > project. > > If somebody else want to take project or create fork, I can prepare > patches and send them to new place. But still I would like to see code > review of patches from other people. dosfstools is a project which is > used by lot of people and is de-facto standard for FAT32 Linux support. > So breaking something should be prevented as much as possible. > > Richard or Andy, if Andreas really do not have time for dosfstools, what > about you to take maintenance of dosfstools? The golden rule is: touch it, own it. You touched it, sorry. ;-) Thanks, //richard ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 23+ messages in thread
* Re: Future of dosfstools project (FAT) 2019-01-08 15:32 ` Andy Shevchenko 2019-01-08 15:39 ` Richard Weinberger @ 2019-02-09 15:40 ` Pali Rohár 2019-02-15 20:04 ` Andy Shevchenko 1 sibling, 1 reply; 23+ messages in thread From: Pali Rohár @ 2019-02-09 15:40 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Andy Shevchenko Cc: Andreas Bombe, Andreas Henriksson, Jaroslav Skarvada, Linux FS Devel, util-linux, Linux Kernel Mailing List, mpluskal, base-system, Karel Zak, Andreas Bombe, Andreas Dilger, Richard Weinberger [-- Attachment #1: Type: text/plain, Size: 781 bytes --] On Tuesday 08 January 2019 17:32:55 Andy Shevchenko wrote: > On Fri, Dec 28, 2018 at 12:18 AM Pali Rohár <pali.rohar@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Monday 17 December 2018 10:50:04 Pali Rohár wrote: > > > On Wednesday 12 December 2018 14:57:36 Pali Rohár wrote: > > > > Thanks for review of #94! As next you can take #92 from list. > > > > Andreas, can you look at next pull requests? > > Looking from a side how slow this is being processed I think the best > option to fork and abandon the old project if author / maintainer by > some reason wouldn't like to give a push rights. Just quick update: I got github permission for merging pull requests. I already merge some small changes. Others needs and waiting for review. -- Pali Rohár pali.rohar@gmail.com [-- Attachment #2: signature.asc --] [-- Type: application/pgp-signature, Size: 195 bytes --] ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 23+ messages in thread
* Re: Future of dosfstools project (FAT) 2019-02-09 15:40 ` Pali Rohár @ 2019-02-15 20:04 ` Andy Shevchenko 0 siblings, 0 replies; 23+ messages in thread From: Andy Shevchenko @ 2019-02-15 20:04 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Pali Rohár Cc: Andreas Bombe, Andreas Henriksson, Jaroslav Skarvada, Linux FS Devel, util-linux, Linux Kernel Mailing List, mpluskal, base-system, Karel Zak, Andreas Bombe, Andreas Dilger, Richard Weinberger On Sat, Feb 9, 2019 at 5:40 PM Pali Rohár <pali.rohar@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Tuesday 08 January 2019 17:32:55 Andy Shevchenko wrote: > > On Fri, Dec 28, 2018 at 12:18 AM Pali Rohár <pali.rohar@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On Monday 17 December 2018 10:50:04 Pali Rohár wrote: > > > > On Wednesday 12 December 2018 14:57:36 Pali Rohár wrote: > > > > > > Thanks for review of #94! As next you can take #92 from list. > > > > > > Andreas, can you look at next pull requests? > > > > Looking from a side how slow this is being processed I think the best > > option to fork and abandon the old project if author / maintainer by > > some reason wouldn't like to give a push rights. > > Just quick update: I got github permission for merging pull requests. > I already merge some small changes. Others needs and waiting for review. Good news for the project, thanks, Pali! -- With Best Regards, Andy Shevchenko ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 23+ messages in thread
* Re: Future of dosfstools project (FAT) 2018-10-01 20:13 ` Richard Weinberger 2018-10-02 8:16 ` Pali Rohár @ 2018-10-02 9:36 ` Karel Zak 1 sibling, 0 replies; 23+ messages in thread From: Karel Zak @ 2018-10-02 9:36 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Richard Weinberger Cc: adilger, Pali Rohár, linux-fsdevel, util-linux, LKML, andy.shevchenko, aeb, andreas.bombe On Mon, Oct 01, 2018 at 10:13:41PM +0200, Richard Weinberger wrote: > On Mon, Oct 1, 2018 at 10:01 PM Andreas Dilger <adilger@dilger.ca> wrote: > > If the current dosfstools maintainer is non-responsive, you could always > > fork the project in GitHub, land the critical patches into your branch, > > and make a release on your own. If the maintainer surfaces again, then > > they can pull in your patches. If not, then you are the new maintainer. > > I also recommend talking to package maintainers of major distros. > Maybe one of them forked the project already and did what you plan to do. > > In any case, let's try to avoid a drama like util-linux-ng was. Drama? :-) We had confirmed support from all mainstream distros before the fork and rename. It was really not ad hoc solution. The project has been renamed back to util-linux after confirmation from the original maintainer. Sometimes fork open source project is a good thing. The another example is mutt -> mutt-kz -> neomutt ;-) Karel -- Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com> http://karelzak.blogspot.com ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 23+ messages in thread
* Re: Future of dosfstools project (FAT) 2018-10-01 20:00 ` Andreas Dilger 2018-10-01 20:13 ` Richard Weinberger @ 2018-10-01 20:14 ` Pali Rohár 1 sibling, 0 replies; 23+ messages in thread From: Pali Rohár @ 2018-10-01 20:14 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Andreas Dilger Cc: linux-fsdevel, util-linux, Linux Kernel Mailing List, Andy Shevchenko, Karel Zak, Andreas Bombe, Andreas Bombe [-- Attachment #1: Type: text/plain, Size: 197 bytes --] On Monday 01 October 2018 14:00:28 Andreas Dilger wrote: > If not, then you are the new maintainer. Hi! I really do not want to have another project. -- Pali Rohár pali.rohar@gmail.com [-- Attachment #2: signature.asc --] [-- Type: application/pgp-signature, Size: 195 bytes --] ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 23+ messages in thread
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