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sahib / rmlint

Extremely fast tool to remove duplicates and other lint from your filesystem
http://rmlint.rtfd.org
GNU General Public License v3.0
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Is rmlint still maintained? #670

Open StatusCode404 opened 5 months ago

StatusCode404 commented 5 months ago

Hi All, Just checking (again but this year) if rmlint is still maintained and supported by anyone?

There aren't that many responses to issues and there hasn't been a new tagged release since August last year.

RichLewis007 commented 5 months ago

Good question. I see that @cebtenzzre (https://github.com/cebtenzzre) has approved pull requests in the last 6 months so he is one maintainer. Let's ask if he needs help with the backlog of issues and pull requests.

The develop branch is years out of date, but has had some useful features added to it in the past that I'd like to use. How can we get them into the main branch?

yarikoptic commented 4 months ago

Ping on this @sahib and @cebtenzzre , a number of PRs send to be trivial and could be merged really fast and please all rmlint users. Got here after seeing @mih showing rmlint in action to dedupdicate annex keys.

Cheers and let me know if we could be of some quick help ;-)

RichLewis007 commented 1 month ago

If the maintainers will not reply, and are not maintaining this project, what are our options? Should we make a fork of it, and try to get the community to move there to actively make the fixes and changes needed?

sahib commented 1 month ago

Original author here. I gave over maintenance to @cebtenzzre some time ago. As far as I can tell he's not responding either, which I can't blame him for. Open source work is seldom rewarding. I can give somebody else access to the repo to sift through the PRs, but this person should have a track of doing some open source work already, as I don't want another xz incident. Ideally even more than one person.

This person won't be me though since I don't posess the time and motivation to do so and also would write rmlint a lot differently today. Please answer in this issue if somebody steps up to do the job.

Forking is an option of course too, but many upstream packages have this repo as source.

yarikoptic commented 1 month ago

I could probably give a hand with some trivial PRs and issues triage, may be an occasional upload to Debian, but not much beyond that. I have some track of FOSS development/maintenance (and also unfortunately abandoning as well ;) )

sahib commented 1 month ago

@yarikoptic Much appreciated. I would prefer if there's one additional person to reduce the risk of getting into the current situation.