Understood. Be well. On June 4, 2020 9:45:39 PM EDT, Eli Schwartz <eschwa...@archlinux.org> wrote: >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?
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