Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Future of rdiff-backup: Python 3 migration and project maintainership in general

[Dale E. Qualls]

Agreed and "starred".






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Subject: Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Future of rdiff-backup: Python 3 migration 
and project maintainership in general


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On Fri, 26 Jul 2019, 17:37 Otto Kekäläinen, <address@hidden> wrote:

> Hello!
>
> There has not been any new releases of rdiff-backup since 2009. If the
> original maintainer does not intend to work on this project, could I
> please be allowed to take over?
>
> I am a Debian Developer and active in multiple open source projects.
> Our company supports many open source projects 
> (seravo.com/opensource<http://seravo.com/opensource>)
> and since we also use rdiff-backup, I could get some funding and man
> power to for example complete the Python3 migration. I know Python
> well and have recently contributed Python code to AppArmor upstream,
> so I think I am technically competent. With 20 years of open source
> experience I believe I can be a good steward this project.
>
> Rdiff-backup is marked for autoremoval from Debian on August 8th. I
> hope we could get some responses and activity on this soon so I have a
> chance to save rdiff-backup in Debian.
> https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/rdiff-backup<https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/rdiff-backup>
>
> That do you think?
>
> If you are in favor of this please let me know by starring
> https://github.com/Seravo/rdiff-backup<https://github.com/Seravo/rdiff-backup>
>
> If I get more than 5 stars I will begin the Python 3 migration and
> also pulling in the best commits from the existing forks that have had
> most activity:
> - 
> https://github.com/ericzolf/rdiff-backup<https://github.com/ericzolf/rdiff-backup>
> - 
> https://github.com/ardovm/rdiff-backup<https://github.com/ardovm/rdiff-backup>
> - 
> https://github.com/hosting90/rdiff-backup<https://github.com/hosting90/rdiff-backup>
> - 
> https://github.com/orangenschalen/rdiff-backup<https://github.com/orangenschalen/rdiff-backup>
> (see 
> https://github.com/sol1/rdiff-backup/network<https://github.com/sol1/rdiff-backup/network>)
>
>
> - Otto
>

Sounds great to me. Rdiff- backup remains a really useful tool so I would
welcome it being given a new lease of life.

>
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