On Tue, 2020-09-22 at 21:34 -0400, Neal Gompa wrote:
On Tue, Sep 22, 2020 at 9:25 PM Dario Faggioli <dfaggioli@suse.com> wrote:
The latter seems preferable, and is feasible for now (I have 7 patches). But what if I continue developing on it, but the official upstream keeps being non-responsive, and the number of patches I need to carry grows and grows?
It looks like the upstream project itself looks moribund, but that's more because yours is the first pull request in five years (!!!).
Yeah, I know. :-)
I suspect the developer has not noticed your pull request. My suggestion is to keep with the mainline + patches approach for now, since the patch load is small,
Ok, makes sense. I'll switch to that approach.
and attempt to contact the maintainer via email to ask to look at your pull request.
Exactly. I don't have his email, but I'm trying to contact him in other ways, even outside of GH. Let's see... Thanks and Regards -- Dario Faggioli, Ph.D http://about.me/dario.faggioli Virtualization Software Engineer SUSE Labs, SUSE https://www.suse.com/ ------------------------------------------------------------------- <<This happens because _I_ choose it to happen!>> (Raistlin Majere)