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

[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 (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