From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.5 required=3.0 tests=DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID, DKIM_VALID_AU,FREEMAIL_FORGED_FROMDOMAIN,FREEMAIL_FROM,FROM_EXCESS_BASE64, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SPF_PASS,USER_AGENT_NEOMUTT autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 88AC0C6786C for ; Fri, 12 Oct 2018 12:40:37 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.180.67]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4EE5D20865 for ; Fri, 12 Oct 2018 12:40:37 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: mail.kernel.org; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=gmail.com header.i=@gmail.com header.b="vcn8Tpvy" DMARC-Filter: OpenDMARC Filter v1.3.2 mail.kernel.org 4EE5D20865 Authentication-Results: mail.kernel.org; dmarc=fail (p=none dis=none) header.from=gmail.com Authentication-Results: mail.kernel.org; spf=none smtp.mailfrom=util-linux-owner@vger.kernel.org Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1728581AbeJLUMs (ORCPT ); Fri, 12 Oct 2018 16:12:48 -0400 Received: from mail-wr1-f67.google.com ([209.85.221.67]:37543 "EHLO mail-wr1-f67.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1728131AbeJLUMr (ORCPT ); Fri, 12 Oct 2018 16:12:47 -0400 Received: by mail-wr1-f67.google.com with SMTP id y11-v6so13267034wrd.4; Fri, 12 Oct 2018 05:40:29 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20161025; h=date:from:to:cc:subject:message-id:references:mime-version :content-disposition:content-transfer-encoding:in-reply-to :user-agent; bh=2GkV2qnHDFgLDfuLqIIY2bhW+UCJfHd9MWMc+0wwJpA=; b=vcn8Tpvy5QZ7FH0qyF9MhzeLviaCRKP0obdwsqox9C0UEjqcyjM8TsX2zEcYfj98Hm eHh9Vn6hYFv5XwavFoEBG1PpIMBSsZoJ2lIUDqFLwqBrwRDXH48qws5kDm7DQryDFnl6 yi+2ycQsu0zGCJzVJoWXZB/kg2SebyabwiA0YsFWU5gYds/IeM8LEJ1H9OHS8vmpVqwI x2f2O9yZnvDu3B2Zx+Ohjb89Sx8pnxASYgkj4gn3gelm8SMsozSlFr14Wd4PSydx7Uhd XNA0JB/U8Qp6/Z3nfBHQXzV1s/T4gCy274EPhTkK42mkvRYIg2V3RB44MElk8Ie1kPhy 5c/Q== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20161025; h=x-gm-message-state:date:from:to:cc:subject:message-id:references :mime-version:content-disposition:content-transfer-encoding :in-reply-to:user-agent; bh=2GkV2qnHDFgLDfuLqIIY2bhW+UCJfHd9MWMc+0wwJpA=; b=J9S8cmyqgAQq8yfFpjVORHWLB4m5XCsguzqrr79TTCT/xABVgsF4Xro4AOAfD/r9ux O3eKBWCwLjVx/6lAgWI20D535Qv5JrUx8AfNJESkt7fPvO9ZKshxWBefLvZbzdqss29x P59bonzusdruhySGBFCOMv0IFdHjxJugAOEyCO2+YkabvQgq7CBHpRytEsIVsXDXTtkl hrFhxDKBnL4CGnfA5T3Jqv5CQBohrm8qa5r0o7dH+RXkaVZCdZze/DkCj0cbEaTHjs9C VwYfITorw6BInH3r9qohd6GdgC6tmDmEVZroNeCOOB53MKcpUkse2HfSTKc4JnGSar3W dL4g== X-Gm-Message-State: ABuFfoj+AQJ7rvXrmEJgq/9pnXnjpw/X286MW1se0cIMutsbFz7I19X9 z3J6EhQwiOYEupou9rlqV9M= X-Google-Smtp-Source: ACcGV61F/2FzndhTe3S8LzjyB16L3WrG7J0xRxGCu5WRjmSG9ruv9ggQayzDjYAWblJegAjF4FG2PA== X-Received: by 2002:adf:a144:: with SMTP id r4-v6mr5094140wrr.169.1539348029051; Fri, 12 Oct 2018 05:40:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pali ([2a02:2b88:2:1::5cc6:2f]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id i7-v6sm1589600wmd.41.2018.10.12.05.40.26 (version=TLS1_2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-CHACHA20-POLY1305 bits=256/256); Fri, 12 Oct 2018 05:40:27 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2018 14:40:26 +0200 From: Pali =?utf-8?B?Um9ow6Fy?= To: Andreas Henriksson Cc: Jaroslav Skarvada , linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, util-linux@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, mpluskal@suse.com, base-system@gentoo.org, Andy Shevchenko , Karel Zak , Andreas Bombe , Andreas Bombe , Andreas Dilger , Richard Weinberger Subject: Re: Future of dosfstools project (FAT) Message-ID: <20181012124026.3v3b6v46hpszkgrt@pali> References: <20180929084038.an6pfhnsd6tblejl@pali> <20181002081654.jxesr3kj62snzez5@pali> <510499199.34825028.1538469850257.JavaMail.zimbra@redhat.com> <20181012091941.o22srnhse4kzqjhf@fatal.se> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <20181012091941.o22srnhse4kzqjhf@fatal.se> User-Agent: NeoMutt/20170113 (1.7.2) Sender: util-linux-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: util-linux@vger.kernel.org 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