Re: [rdiff-backup-users] rdiff-backup being maintained?

[Charles Duffy]

Kevin Horton wrote:
> If Ben lacks the time and/or interest to maintain rdiff-backup, is 
> there anyone who is interested and capable of taking over?  If so, he 
> could inquire if Ben is willing to hand over control.  If Ben doesn't 
> want to hand over control, then the new maintainer could fork a new 
> project using the rdiff-backup code.

[PLUG]

Ya know, this is one of the things that's nice about distributed 
revision control: Anyone can create a repository on their own server, so 
there's not necessarily one single Source Of Truth which only a primary 
maintainer can commit or control access to, and since alternate 
maintainers commit to their own (publicly accessible) branches on their 
own servers, the primary maintainer doesn't need to pick a selected few 
folks who are trusted to get commit access -- anyone with their own 
public webspace can have commit access to their own separately-hosted 
branch, and merging between those branches is straightforward.

There are quite a lot of distributed revctl tools out there these days; 
Bazaar is arguably one of the lower-barrier-to-entry ones, but darcs and 
mercurial and git and so forth all have this basic advantage and premise.

[/PLUG]