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meh. ultimately this is OSS. the maintainer was negligent. if you're not a good OSS maintainer, you don't deserve to maintain control. it's not reasonable to be
by appstateguy 7y ago
meh. ultimately this is OSS. the maintainer was negligent. if you're not a good OSS maintainer, you don't deserve to maintain control. it's not reasonable to be indefinitely patient when the original author shows no initiative to maintain their project
- bauerd 7y agoThey didn't even try to contact the author?!
- bonzini 7y agodstat was basically presumed dead due to lack of upstream activity. I recall the internal discussion was something like A: "Whoa, there is no dstat in RHEL8? Customers are gonna complain." B: "Yes, it's because it's Python 2 only and upstream is dead. Tell customers to use PCP" A: "Srsly? Nobody thinks of the scripts? Besides, dstat output is so nice." C: "Well, there is some toy example to print pcp data in dstat format." A: "Do we really want to tell customers 'there is a toy example'?" C: "Give me a day or two to pimp it up." And then C got a bit carried away. :-)
- op00to 7y agoWhy would you try to contact someone who's abandoned the project?
- dagwieers 7y agoMaybe because it is the nice thing to do? And it's not like I have disappeared from the face of the earth. I am quite active on GitHub.