From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-pg1-f196.google.com ([209.85.215.196]:42453 "EHLO mail-pg1-f196.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1726238AbeJBCj6 (ORCPT ); Mon, 1 Oct 2018 22:39:58 -0400 Received: by mail-pg1-f196.google.com with SMTP id i4-v6so9598836pgq.9 for ; Mon, 01 Oct 2018 13:00:32 -0700 (PDT) From: Andreas Dilger Message-Id: <404F3F76-402D-4E29-9957-429CB7D7ECFC@dilger.ca> Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="Apple-Mail=_4596DF16-CEEF-4C6F-8E92-96CFCF730F45"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha256 Mime-Version: 1.0 (Mac OS X Mail 10.3 \(3273\)) Subject: Re: Future of dosfstools project (FAT) Date: Mon, 1 Oct 2018 14:00:28 -0600 In-Reply-To: <20180929084038.an6pfhnsd6tblejl@pali> Cc: linux-fsdevel , util-linux@vger.kernel.org, Linux Kernel Mailing List , Andy Shevchenko , Karel Zak , Andreas Bombe , Andreas Bombe To: =?utf-8?Q?Pali_Roh=C3=A1r?= References: <20180929084038.an6pfhnsd6tblejl@pali> Sender: linux-fsdevel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: --Apple-Mail=_4596DF16-CEEF-4C6F-8E92-96CFCF730F45 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 On Sep 29, 2018, at 2:40 AM, Pali Roh=C3=A1r = wrote: >=20 > Hi! >=20 > 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 >=20 > 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 >=20 > 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. >=20 > 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. >=20 > I do not know what happened, if either Andreas do not have time or > something else... >=20 > So does somebody know what is state of dosfstools project? >=20 > 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 >=20 > If Andreas does not have time, can somebody else at least look at pull > requests and do some code review? >=20 > 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... >=20 > 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 --Apple-Mail=_4596DF16-CEEF-4C6F-8E92-96CFCF730F45 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: Message signed with OpenPGP -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Comment: GPGTools - http://gpgtools.org iQIzBAEBCAAdFiEEDb73u6ZejP5ZMprvcqXauRfMH+AFAluyfNwACgkQcqXauRfM H+Cc7A/+P5AaNxOVq2Nf9I/rkxajuSt1LmUb0kc/o/bVRLzeHXHvKup2svrtDCoq kcahTf4iAQRc6A0FIMen9USo3TihLpiS2OJ7oE25WUrhE66nlCAMhIpTzWuzX190 7CETWuGlyt93kOQI7DV5esrhxNwzVwh0uAMsNRjtcsjfg/eWn96sFZ3ywxro/0WC /b+TwBWqFfkUdBBOPgFXK/c4HHV5Y3xjHPHhr98bWFRbSZgibkhokNjXTbBpJHGe +Srmm+fgfMmZU12+IedlgQyFewcM+3G/kb5ahXvn+6PDEeUAPD2QBqDppuQSBfq8 E04mqOiIMIV5tuX0lmN5fgdAT3PILjBzzLM32a7Y6B9cTH+9s3d88db4kQaUfa16 V66Ad0G+1C8N2Isbf8XQgzhzJX5kxNqEqr53GVoiAiy5Et9odcH9BjS7YuWfSyE+ 1Q5SZDOH59dW+y/g4Q35GFLVrxOlBxjwy+X3R2NzdlohLbvS0Xh0OM/IT7M73vad w/G6ix2T95fRJeM8Onl2X/6bvGJwzSHz8TFrwuevmN4bY+p4y7ShLJey9AxAH5Pi 7q0CtHrjoZvX587VYJxgeTz9tQgXZnNhEbm+Y05NzNUrlJ6r77Gz8+MRLxfdLCT8 QmU2SIiwber7/h1/QxZgMmKx9EYzP2aVviiFhJITC3pQWRJEXso= =En8f -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Apple-Mail=_4596DF16-CEEF-4C6F-8E92-96CFCF730F45--