Re: Future of dosfstools project (FAT)

From: "Pali Rohár" <pali.rohar@gmail.com>
To: Andreas Henriksson <andreas@fatal.se>
Cc: Jaroslav Skarvada <jskarvad@redhat.com>,
	linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, util-linux@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, mpluskal@suse.com,
	base-system@gentoo.org,
	Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@gmail.com>,
	Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>, Andreas Bombe <aeb@debian.org>,
	Andreas Bombe <andreas.bombe@gmail.com>,
	Andreas Dilger <adilger@dilger.ca>,
	Richard Weinberger <richard.weinberger@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Future of dosfstools project (FAT)
Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2018 14:40:26 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20181012124026.3v3b6v46hpszkgrt@pali> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20181012091941.o22srnhse4kzqjhf@fatal.se>

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