Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Future of rdiff-backup: Python 3 migration and project maintainership in general

2019-07-26 Thread Bill Harris
Hello, Otto. I have used rdiff-backup for quite a few years, and I find it largely does what I want. I would like to see it updated and key issues fixed or improved. While I can't say that rdiff-backup is completely irreplaceable, I wouldn't want to see it disappear, I do like many of its

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Future of rdiff-backup: Python 3 migration and project maintainership in general

2019-07-26 Thread Otto Kekäläinen
Hello! > From my understanding sol1 was taking the maintainer-ship of the project, > they have done some preliminary work, but nothing serious in term of > release or pull request. Which is a bit disappointing. There are no commits on the sol1 fork since January 2018, so it looked dead to me. Of

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Future of rdiff-backup: Python 3 migration and project maintainership in general

2019-07-26 Thread Eric L.
Hi, I've just finished the migration of rdiff-backup to Python 3 after months of work, improving at the same time the test framework. Anybody can check and feedback at https://github.com/sol1/rdiff-backup/pull/40 without paying money The quality seems equal to the version 1.2.8 packaged under

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Future of rdiff-backup: Python 3 migration and project maintainership in general

2019-07-26 Thread Patrik Dufresne
Hi Otto, I'm the software developer behind rdiffweb and Minarca (with a new release to be coming soon with self-hosted feature). While I have not contribute alot to rdiff-backup, I want to contribute to add new feature to make rdiffweb and Minarca better and faster. As of now, it's relatively

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Future of rdiff-backup: Python 3 migration and project maintainership in general

2019-07-26 Thread Dale E. Qualls
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Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Future of rdiff-backup: Python 3 migration and project maintainership in general

2019-07-26 Thread Dominic Raferd
On Fri, 26 Jul 2019, 17:37 Otto Kekäläinen, 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

[rdiff-backup-users] Future of rdiff-backup: Python 3 migration and project maintainership in general

2019-07-26 Thread Otto Kekäläinen
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