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Date:   Tue, 2 Oct 2018 11:36:19 +0200
From:   Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>
To:     Richard Weinberger <richard.weinberger@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Future of dosfstools project (FAT)
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On Mon, Oct 01, 2018 at 10:13:41PM +0200, Richard Weinberger wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 1, 2018 at 10:01 PM Andreas Dilger <adilger@dilger.ca> 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.

Drama? :-) We had confirmed support from all mainstream distros before
the fork and rename. It was really not ad hoc solution. The project
has been renamed back to util-linux after confirmation from the
original maintainer.

Sometimes fork open source project is a good thing. The another
example is mutt -> mutt-kz -> neomutt ;-)

    Karel


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