Re: util-linux: orphan

[H. Peter Anvin]

Karel Zak wrote:
>  I've originally thought about util-linux upstream fork, but as
>  usually an fork is bad step. So.. I'd like to start some discussion
>  before this step. Maybe Adrian will be realistic and he will leave
>  the project and invest all his time to kernel only.

Actually, forking is not really that bad of an idea.  When I took over 
tftp, for example, I just did it and called it tftp-hpa.  It didn't take 
very long before I got a message from the netkit maintainer asking if I 
was planning to continue, and if so if he could drop tftp from netkit.

A similar thing happened when Jeremy (and now Ian) took over autofs from me.

Forking gets your new maintainership proven *before* you end up taking 
over.  On the other hand, magicfilter effectively died when I handed it 
over to someone who didn't do a good job with it.

	-hpa
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