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fsnotify

Open nathany opened this issue 7 years ago • 8 comments

  • Where is the project currently hosted? https://github.com/fsnotify

  • Is the project written only in Go, or does it contain other languages (beyond scripts)? Entirely Go for https://github.com/fsnotify/fsnotify, but related project https://github.com/fsnotify/fsevents uses a fair bit of cgo in the Go code.

  • Has the project had any recent activity? Not for several months (Jan 9).

  • Does the project have a maintainer, or a maintainer looking for someone to take over the project? Been looking for maintainers for well over a year now: https://github.com/fsnotify/fsnotify/issues/183 (current project owner may still be able to help in some capacity, but has been inactive for some time)

  • Are there active projects which replicate the popular functionality of this project? Related project that is more active: https://github.com/rjeczalik/notify

  • Do you have any example projects that make use of this package? Many many importers: https://godoc.org/github.com/fsnotify/fsnotify?importers

  • Are there any outstanding critical bugs that result in the library being totally unusable or insecure? Possibly. There are many open pull requests and issues.

  • Is there anything else you'd like to mention about the project? I took over this project from @howeyc but have done a poor job of maintaining it as of late. I don't feel like I adequately know the file system APIs (epoll, etc.) to accept/deny pull requests at this time. May be willing to help in some areas now that I have more time available, but the project definitely needs a team if it's going to thrive.

nathany avatar Aug 21 '18 23:08 nathany

This should probably be one we take over as there are several notable projects using this. Has there ever been a security audit?

I'm far from an expert in this domain, but should we make noise to raise awareness?

adamdecaf avatar Aug 22 '18 07:08 adamdecaf

I don't believe there has ever been a security audit on fsnotify.

nathany avatar Aug 22 '18 07:08 nathany

Today I was able to do some work on the related fsnotify/fsevents (macOS) project. Anyone planning to be down in Denver for GopherCon this year? A good time to get organized.

Btw, we have #fsnotify on Gopher Slack.

nathany avatar Aug 26 '18 05:08 nathany

I'll be there. A few others will be too. We can definitely all try to sync on this.

theckman avatar Aug 26 '18 07:08 theckman

Ping @theckman

nathany avatar Jul 27 '19 18:07 nathany

Hello gophers. Fsnotify could still really use some help. Ideally a couple people for each operating system that it supports.

https://github.com/fsnotify/fsnotify/issues/183

nathany avatar Feb 07 '21 22:02 nathany

My call for help maintaining fsnotify has had very little result in the past 5 years.

I will be officially leaving the fsnotify project whether or not anyone else picks it up.

If nobody else takes the project over soon, I will be archiving the project. That way it can still be used as-is but no more issues can be reported. Then it will be up to someone to fork it and maintain it if anyone wants to.

nathany avatar Jan 14 '22 04:01 nathany

Final Notice: Maintainers Wanted https://github.com/fsnotify/fsnotify/issues/413

nathany avatar Jan 14 '22 07:01 nathany

fsnotify has found maintainers https://github.com/fsnotify/fsnotify/issues/413#issuecomment-1190954838

ldez avatar Jul 02 '24 02:07 ldez