On Fri, 26 Jul 2019, 17:37 Otto Kekäläinen, <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello! > > There has not been any new releases of rdiff-backup since 2009. If the > original maintainer does not intend to work on this project, could I > please be allowed to take over? > > I am a Debian Developer and active in multiple open source projects. > Our company supports many open source projects (seravo.com/opensource) > and since we also use rdiff-backup, I could get some funding and man > power to for example complete the Python3 migration. I know Python > well and have recently contributed Python code to AppArmor upstream, > so I think I am technically competent. With 20 years of open source > experience I believe I can be a good steward this project. > > Rdiff-backup is marked for autoremoval from Debian on August 8th. I > hope we could get some responses and activity on this soon so I have a > chance to save rdiff-backup in Debian. > https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/rdiff-backup > > That do you think? > > If you are in favor of this please let me know by starring > https://github.com/Seravo/rdiff-backup > > If I get more than 5 stars I will begin the Python 3 migration and > also pulling in the best commits from the existing forks that have had > most activity: > - https://github.com/ericzolf/rdiff-backup > - https://github.com/ardovm/rdiff-backup > - https://github.com/hosting90/rdiff-backup > - https://github.com/orangenschalen/rdiff-backup > (see https://github.com/sol1/rdiff-backup/network) > > > - Otto > Sounds great to me. Rdiff- backup remains a really useful tool so I would welcome it being given a new lease of life. > _______________________________________________ rdiff-backup-users mailing list at [email protected] https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/rdiff-backup-users Wiki URL: http://rdiff-backup.solutionsfirst.com.au/index.php/RdiffBackupWiki
