On 6/4/20 9:01 PM, Jody Bruchon wrote: > If things hang for too long, I'd be willing to fork the project and > maintain it so it can keep on chugging. I'm not as good as Denys > though. Can't promise my mailing list replies will be bottom-posted > though ;-)
Why are we YOLO forking busybox again? The last commit by Denys was 2 weeks ago, not 4 months: https://git.busybox.net/busybox/commit/?id=45fa3f18adf57ef9d743038743d9c90573aeeb91 As a general rule of thumb, one should really not be forking and trying to take over a project rather than having it granted by the previous maintainers. You'd need to have a very good rationale to convince people to follow the fork, and for a pretty important project, also a pretty sterling reputation in addition to a lengthy history of contribution. On which note there are people with a bit more than 3 commits, who may be somewhat more reliably invested in its future. "I think the maintainer died of COVID-19" might be a good reason, but you should probably wait a bit longer before deciding that... sometimes people are just busy, you know? The previous commit was April 30, 3 weeks before the latest one, which is now 5 weeks ago today, and corresponds to Denys' most recent post to this list: http://lists.busybox.net/pipermail/busybox/2020-April/087936.html The push before that was on February 26, the tail end of a couple of weeks that saw a flurry of activity, then nothing again between February 13 and January 29 (several patches landed that day), then other than one patch on January 14, nothing since December 3. tl;dr there's nothing deviant about this activity pattern. It also, from a cursory overview, roughly corresponds to Denys' activity on the mailing lists. Nothing deviant there either. So if you feel this is problematic and busybox could use more activity, then I'm sure you can all start a discussion about how its developer doesn't prioritize it enough. But can we not start wild conspiracy theories about him disappearing? And can we not threaten to fork it in retaliation? -- Eli Schwartz Arch Linux Bug Wrangler and Trusted User
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