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Is the project still being maintained? #443
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I just hope he was not swallowed by the corpofascists! |
@gsliepen, if you are still alive, archive the repository or write in readme.txt that you can no longer develop it! If you are captured, blink twice. |
Rumors of my demise have been greatly exaggerated. I currently have very little time to work on it. However, nothing prevents people from sending patches, pull requests and/or forking the project. I think that would be more helpful than archiving the repository. |
A ton has changed since pre18, including moving to meson. Enough I would think worthy of pre19. |
@gsliepen glad to seen you again! but what about the pull requests waiting since a year? |
Perhaps I could start maintaining a staging fork with all the patches that people think that are worth merging? Once I collect enough stuff and done sufficient amount of testing, we could consider merging in the main repository? I don't have the time or skills to do proper development on this project. I definitely love this project though. If this is something people think might be worthwhile, do let me know. I don't promise anything. |
Or may you consider community cooperative maintenance in @abandonware org ? |
@rzr abandonware is a good idea, but maybe the name makes confusion since if the software is alive again so it's not considered as abandoned anymore ;). the biggest issue would be where to host and how. IPFS with IPNS (like archive.org) could be a good alternative in case of the source code is abandoned multiple time and if github disappears too or change their rules. the most complex would be to who admin permissions will be given and how long. |
ok good to know that project is not abandoned anymore (btw there is also @adoptware for maintained @abandonware projects) regarding preservation purpose may this project answer to the need: https://www.softwareheritage.org/ it's not decentralized though |
I really think tinc would have a place in the current state of the industry though. |
tinc is still great, just really lacking in time from leadership. If someone wants to step up I'd be happy to send my PRs in your direction. |
I know there are lots of people liking tinc, and indeed it still has unique features that I don't see in other VPN solutions. But development is very slow, and not just because I myself have little time to spend on it; the last year and a half no other developers have spent much time on it either. And while I do get the occasional pull request, it usually it is just to fix an issue, or to add a feature that one particular person wants, there is no one doing general development anymore. In 2022, @hg did a lot of work, and the project needs someone like them to move forward. I'll keep looking at pull requests, but I do have some standards, and I also am a bit wary about new features that sound great to the person creating them, but might break other people's setups. If anyone feels that this is too restrictive, and wants to have more control over where tinc is heading, then by all means maintain your own fork, and if that goes demonstrably well we can discuss merging that back into the official repository and/or hand over project ownership. |
I think besides the invite feature and maybe performance improvements (if possible) no new features are really necessary. |
I guess Tinc works well enough so people aren't too worried? |
Hello,
There are some open issues and pull requests. Furthermore, it has been over a year since the last commit. Is the project still being actively maintained?
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