Re: Orphaning eza (rust-eza - maintained fork of exa)

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On 05/11/2024 21:39, Fabio Valentini wrote:
On Tue, Nov 5, 2024 at 9:33 PM Arthur Bols <arthur@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi Fabio,

On 31/10/2024 19:38, Fabio Valentini wrote:

Hi all,

TL;DR: I am planning to orphan rust-eza later today. Be warned - it's
a lot of work to keep up with upstream (~1 release per week), keeping
it up-to-date in epel8 is a bit painful (because RHEL 8, duh), and
there are license shenanigans afoot since the v0.20.0 release (package
is currently at v0.19.3).

Given that I don't even use eza myself and just packaged it because it
was on some people's wishlist as the maintained fork of exa, I really
cannot justify the ongoing cost of maintaining this package to myself.

I'm interested in maintaining eza since I use it on multiple systems. I'm a bit hesitant, though. First, I won't have time to keep up with every upstream release, but I'll do my best to keep it updated. Also, because of the large dependency tree, I think joining the rust-sig would be helpful so I can update dependencies as needed (and of course, I'll try to help others out where I can). Finally, my experience with Rust is limited, but I am quite familiar with the packaging process.
Well .. I guess it depends on how much time you can invest into this?
And if you want to deal with the licensing mess mentioned below? :)
Difficult to say right now, but I believe enough.
It might be of note that the project was relicenced from MIT to
EUPL-1.2 without much fanfare as of the 0.20.0 release, in this
mess-of-a-PR: https://github.com/eza-community/eza/pull/1155 - I'm not
a lawyer, but the maintainer unilaterally slapping a different license
onto a project that's been around since 2017 in some form without
asking other contributors (or the original author of exa) doesn't pass
the smell test for me.

Seriously... https://github.com/eza-community/eza/releases/tag/v0.20.0
The PR mentions dual-licensing, but it's now a mess of only MIT,  MIT or  EUPL-1.2, and only EUPL-1.2...
Yes. I wasn't joking when I said it was a mess-of-a-PR :)
That mess alone would make me hesitant to want to continue maintaining
(or using) this project. :(
I can understand that. Unfortunately it is a great tool... :/ I'm going to sleep on it.

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