> On Oct 12, 2018, at 7:40 AM, Pali Rohár <pali.rohar@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> 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@xxxxxxxxx Rather than fork it could he give someone access as a maintainer to the existing project?
