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([2600:1700:7b90:52f0:845c:c03d:7907:8fd1]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id s187-v6sm301159ywe.10.2018.10.12.07.35.20 (version=TLS1_2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Fri, 12 Oct 2018 07:35:21 -0700 (PDT) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Mime-Version: 1.0 (1.0) Subject: Re: Future of dosfstools project (FAT) From: Doug Goldstein X-Mailer: iPhone Mail (16A404) In-Reply-To: <20181012124026.3v3b6v46hpszkgrt@pali> Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2018 09:35:05 -0500 Cc: Andreas Henriksson , 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 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: References: <20180929084038.an6pfhnsd6tblejl@pali> <20181002081654.jxesr3kj62snzez5@pali> <510499199.34825028.1538469850257.JavaMail.zimbra@redhat.com> <20181012091941.o22srnhse4kzqjhf@fatal.se> <20181012124026.3v3b6v46hpszkgrt@pali> To: =?utf-8?Q?Pali_Roh=C3=A1r?= Sender: util-linux-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: util-linux@vger.kernel.org > On Oct 12, 2018, at 7:40 AM, Pali Roh=C3=A1r wrote:= >=20 >> On Friday 12 October 2018 11:19:41 Andreas Henriksson wrote: >> Hello everyone, >>=20 >>> On Tue, Oct 02, 2018 at 04:44:10AM -0400, Jaroslav Skarvada wrote: >>> I am downstream maintainer of dosfstools in Fedora/RHEL. My personal opi= nion >>> with such kind of projects is that one or two years without activity doe= sn'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 offen= sive >>> solution which can be easily reverted if needed. Please let me know if y= ou do it >>=20 >> 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). >>=20 >> 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. >>=20 >> 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). >>=20 >> Regards, >> Andreas Henriksson >=20 > Ok, so it would be great if somebody can help Andreas with reviewing > opened dosfstools pull requests on github... >=20 > https://github.com/dosfstools/dosfstools/pulls >=20 > --=20 > Pali Roh=C3=A1r > pali.rohar@gmail.com Rather than fork it could he give someone access as a maintainer to the exis= ting project?=