On Monday 01 October 2018 22:13:41 Richard Weinberger wrote: > On Mon, Oct 1, 2018 at 10:01 PM Andreas Dilger <adilger@xxxxxxxxx> 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 I have some other unpublished/unfinished changes for dosfstools, but I 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@xxxxxxxxx
