linux-kernel - Re: Future of dosfstools project (FAT)

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Message-ID: <7446280.uGaFHXOlFU@blindfold>
Date:   Mon, 14 Jan 2019 16:19:12 +0100
From:   Richard Weinberger <richard@....at>
To:     Pali Rohár <pali.rohar@...il.com>
Cc:     Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@...il.com>,
        Andreas Bombe <andreas.bombe@...il.com>,
        Andreas Henriksson <andreas@...al.se>,
        Jaroslav Skarvada <jskarvad@...hat.com>,
        Linux FS Devel <linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org>,
        util-linux@...r.kernel.org,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        mpluskal@...e.com, base-system@...too.org,
        Karel Zak <kzak@...hat.com>, Andreas Bombe <aeb@...ian.org>,
        Andreas Dilger <adilger@...ger.ca>
Subject: Re: Future of dosfstools project (FAT)

Am Montag, 14. Januar 2019, 16:17:09 CET schrieb Pali Rohár:
> On Tuesday 08 January 2019 16:39:04 Richard Weinberger wrote:
> > Am Dienstag, 8. Januar 2019, 16:32:55 CET schrieb Andy Shevchenko:
> > > On Fri, Dec 28, 2018 at 12:18 AM Pali Rohár <pali.rohar@...il.com> wrote:
> > > > On Monday 17 December 2018 10:50:04 Pali Rohár wrote:
> > > > > On Wednesday 12 December 2018 14:57:36 Pali Rohár wrote:
> > > 
> > > > > Thanks for review of #94! As next you can take #92 from list.
> > > >
> > > > Andreas, can you look at next pull requests?
> > > 
> > > Looking from a side how slow this is being processed I think the best
> > > option to fork and abandon the old project if author / maintainer by
> > > some reason wouldn't like to give a push rights.
> > 
> > +1
> 
> I really do not want to create fork or become new "maintainer" of this
> project.
> 
> If somebody else want to take project or create fork, I can prepare
> patches and send them to new place. But still I would like to see code
> review of patches from other people. dosfstools is a project which is
> used by lot of people and is de-facto standard for FAT32 Linux support.
> So breaking something should be prevented as much as possible.
> 
> Richard or Andy, if Andreas really do not have time for dosfstools, what
> about you to take maintenance of dosfstools?

The golden rule is: touch it, own it.
You touched it, sorry. ;-)

Thanks,
//richard