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Unfortunately the primary author has mostly moved onto other things, and hasn't elected any maintainers. It's been three months without any commits, and there's

Unfortunately the primary author has mostly moved onto other things, and hasn't elected any maintainers. It's been three months without any commits, and there's 60+ open PRs. The biggest missing feature of Restic is no support for compression. Ah, well.

aleph- 7y ago
As far as I'm aware from the IRC channel the primary maintainer is mainly busy moving. I do concede it is annoying having to fold in upstream PRs to my own build of it.
bsg75 7y ago
Discussion from September, including other committers and lack of PR attention: https://forum.restic.net/t/is-restic-dying/2103/5 https://forum.restic.net/t/is-restic-dying/2103/5
ac29 7y ago
There's a recent open PR adding compression support: https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/2441 https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/2441
balladeer 7y ago
That’s exactly how Borg started. After it was evident Attic was going to be abandoned. Though I’d say it’s way too early for Restic to land into such a predicament.