What is the status of this project? (...And an offer to join forces)

[carlspring]

Hi,

I'm not sure, if you've received my e-mail, so I'm posting this as an issue here.

I came across your fork, as in the past you have contributed to the Upplication/Amazon-S3-FileSystem-NIO2. It looks like your fork has had a life of its own and that many of your fixes have not made it into the upstream (which appears to now be dead). Is your fork still being actively developed? Would you be interested in joining forces?

We have started a new spin-off project (a rebranded fork with preserved history, based on the latest master of the Upplication/Amazon-S3-FileSystem-NIO2) called s3fs-nio, as we'd like to resuscitate the original project and keep the development going. We have upgraded to AWS SDK v2, as well as all of the outdated dependencies, have support for JDK 8 and 11 and have done a cleanup of the code base, among many other things (some of the more fundamental you can find here). We're working on quite a few other things and we're wondering if you'd be interested in joining our efforts (or contributing to them).

Would you be interested in:

• Explaining what fixes you've applied to your fork and what value they add?
• Submitting pull requests to our spin-off, so that we can apply your fixes to our codebase?
• Joining us in our efforts to build a better maintained project?
• Raising issues in our issue tracker to help understand what features still need to be implemented and what bugs exist?
• Evaluating our fixes so far and providing feedback?
• Hearing your view in regards to the licensing of the https://github.com/Upplication/Amazon-S3-FileSystem-NIO2 project ( Upplication/Amazon-S3-FileSystem-NIO2#134 , carlspring/s3fs-nio#2 ).
• We would really like to bring this project back to life and make some noise around it, so that people could contribute to it and enjoy using a stable version of a library that is well-maintained and documented. ;)

Here are the details of our project:

• Github
• Documentation
• Sonarqube
• Chat channel

Looking forward to hearing back from you!

Kind regards,

Martin Todorov

[pditommaso]

Hi, sorry for the late reply. Indeed, this initiative is very welcome. The project was forked to implements some features that a that time were not supported, such as multipart upload, download without intermediate temp file, etc.

Currently, this repo only receives critical patches and a more stable implementation sounds a good initiative.

I'll keep an eye on your channels and I'll try to evaluate your implementation when you will have a testable release.

[carlspring]

Thanks for getting back to me! Looking forward to co-operating with you on the s3fs-nio project! :)