From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: util-linux-owner@vger.kernel.org Received: from mail-wr1-f65.google.com ([209.85.221.65]:33613 "EHLO mail-wr1-f65.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1727006AbeJBO7A (ORCPT ); Tue, 2 Oct 2018 10:59:00 -0400 Date: Tue, 2 Oct 2018 10:16:54 +0200 From: Pali =?utf-8?B?Um9ow6Fy?= To: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, util-linux@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Jaroslav =?utf-8?B?xaBrYXJ2YWRh?= , mpluskal@suse.com, base-system@gentoo.org Cc: Andy Shevchenko , Karel Zak , Andreas Bombe , Andreas Bombe , Andreas Dilger , Richard Weinberger Subject: Re: Future of dosfstools project (FAT) Message-ID: <20181002081654.jxesr3kj62snzez5@pali> References: <20180929084038.an6pfhnsd6tblejl@pali> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 In-Reply-To: <20180929084038.an6pfhnsd6tblejl@pali> Sender: util-linux-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Monday 01 October 2018 22:13:41 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. 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