Re: Future of dosfstools project (FAT)

From: Richard Weinberger
Date: Mon Jan 14 2019 - 10:19:21 EST


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@xxxxxxxxx> 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