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I'd welcome such a tool, but it makes me nervous that it hasn't had any activity at all in three months. Was this just a single-shot effort, and move on?

alfanick 5mo ago
It's fine to mature projects if they're good enough according to author's point of view. No point of fixing something that's not broken. No point of adding features that no one needs.
- quantummagic 5mo ago
  That goes without saying. But there are a few bug reports and issues that have gone without a response for months. It seems abandoned, rather than finished to perfection. Not to mention that systemd is a moving target, with new features released quite often.
  - thunderbong 5mo ago
    I had a look at the issues. I see comments added to each one of them. Some of them are already on the roadmap.
pamcake 5mo ago
Three months for a utility tool like this is nothing to panic in comments about.
drcongo 5mo ago
I actually use this tool and it's pretty great, certainly for my needs anyway.
RevaFloyd 5mo ago
But all their issues are being tracked tho? The author looks like put it on roadmap
db48x 5mo ago
It’s open source. If you discover any bugs, report them. If the author doesn’t fix them quickly enough to satisfy you, fix them yourself. Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, _modify_, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:
- nozzlegear 5mo ago
  Unless you're invested in the tool for one reason or another, it's so much easier and more practical to just find a different one.
  - db48x 5mo ago
    Doing what is easiest often causes suboptimal results. In this case people hopping from one inadequate tool to the next, instead of sticking with one tool for a long time and slowly improving it any time an inadequacy is discovered.
dspillett 5mo ago
For a small, essentially feature complete, utility, I would not be concerned. In fact for a tool like this I'd be more concerned by rapid turn-over suggesting current instability (i.e. a project in its early days, so buggy and/or changing rapidly).
atoav 5mo ago
Why can software not be finished? I once wrote a Rs-232 translator softeare converting between two different flavors of a control signal. This thing is running for 15 years without update and a single bug now. Granted it also isn't user facing and it's environment won't change, so there is no pressure for changes, but why do we think software needs constant updates? Because y'all use dependencies you need to update? Because you're used to software shipping half finished?

alfanick 5mo ago

It's fine to mature projects if they're good enough according to author's point of view. No point of fixing something that's not broken. No point of adding features that no one needs.

quantummagic 5mo ago
That goes without saying. But there are a few bug reports and issues that have gone without a response for months. It seems abandoned, rather than finished to perfection. Not to mention that systemd is a moving target, with new features released quite often.
- thunderbong 5mo ago
  I had a look at the issues. I see comments added to each one of them. Some of them are already on the roadmap.

pamcake 5mo ago

Three months for a utility tool like this is nothing to panic in comments about.

drcongo 5mo ago

I actually use this tool and it's pretty great, certainly for my needs anyway.

RevaFloyd 5mo ago

But all their issues are being tracked tho? The author looks like put it on roadmap

db48x 5mo ago

It’s open source. If you discover any bugs, report them. If the author doesn’t fix them quickly enough to satisfy you, fix them yourself. Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, _modify_, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

nozzlegear 5mo ago
Unless you're invested in the tool for one reason or another, it's so much easier and more practical to just find a different one.
- db48x 5mo ago
  Doing what is easiest often causes suboptimal results. In this case people hopping from one inadequate tool to the next, instead of sticking with one tool for a long time and slowly improving it any time an inadequacy is discovered.

dspillett 5mo ago

For a small, essentially feature complete, utility, I would not be concerned. In fact for a tool like this I'd be more concerned by rapid turn-over suggesting current instability (i.e. a project in its early days, so buggy and/or changing rapidly).

atoav 5mo ago

Why can software not be finished? I once wrote a Rs-232 translator softeare converting between two different flavors of a control signal. This thing is running for 15 years without update and a single bug now. Granted it also isn't user facing and it's environment won't change, so there is no pressure for changes, but why do we think software needs constant updates? Because y'all use dependencies you need to update? Because you're used to software shipping half finished?