From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:45516 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1726781AbeJBQSn (ORCPT ); Tue, 2 Oct 2018 12:18:43 -0400 Date: Tue, 2 Oct 2018 11:36:19 +0200 From: Karel Zak To: Richard Weinberger Cc: adilger@dilger.ca, Pali =?utf-8?B?Um9ow6Fy?= , linux-fsdevel , util-linux@vger.kernel.org, LKML , andy.shevchenko@gmail.com, aeb@debian.org, andreas.bombe@gmail.com Subject: Re: Future of dosfstools project (FAT) Message-ID: <20181002093619.nrmibtzouwraoyob@ws.net.home> References: <20180929084038.an6pfhnsd6tblejl@pali> <404F3F76-402D-4E29-9957-429CB7D7ECFC@dilger.ca> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-fsdevel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Mon, Oct 01, 2018 at 10:13:41PM +0200, Richard Weinberger wrote: > On Mon, Oct 1, 2018 at 10:01 PM Andreas Dilger 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 http://karelzak.blogspot.com