Syslinux - Oct 2018 - Is syslinux still worked on? No new commits in git for about one year

On Thu, 2018-10-18 at 12:14 +0200, Didier Spaier via Syslinux
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> On 10/17/18 8:54 PM, KARBOWSKI Piotr via Syslinux wrote:
> > Is syslinux still under active development? I do not see any new
commit in git repo for about a year.
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> Hi,
> 
> I think that you pretty much answered your question.
> 
> My assumption is developers and potential developers are busy with other
> projects, like sub-systems of the Linux kernel or GRUB.
> 
> For instance there is an heavy traffic here:
> http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/grub.git/log/
> and also there:
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/grub-devel/2018-10/threads.html
> 
> This is just a guess from an end user, though.
syslinux probably needs one more maintainer, one that can do release mgmt, pre
rels., apply patches
from the community etc. All the stuff needed besides develop & fix bugs in
the code.

  Jocke

Hi,

Joakim Tjernlund wrote:
> All the stuff needed besides develop & fix bugs in the code.
Well, if the Bugs&Code department is still alive, how about a reaction on

  https://www.syslinux.org/archives/2018-January/026079.html
  [syslinux] [PATCH] ISOLINUX: Fix checksum calculation in lzo/prepcore.c


Have a nice day :)

Thomas

On Thu, Oct 18, 2018 at 7:31 AM Thomas Schmitt via Syslinux
<syslinux at zytor.com> wrote:
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> Hi,
>
> Joakim Tjernlund wrote:
> > All the stuff needed besides develop & fix bugs in the code.
>
> Well, if the Bugs&Code department is still alive, how about a reaction
on
>
>   https://www.syslinux.org/archives/2018-January/026079.html
>   [syslinux] [PATCH] ISOLINUX: Fix checksum calculation in lzo/prepcore.c
>
>
> Have a nice day :)
>
> Thomas
Free time hasn't been but at least for the week, I've found a time
that works for now.

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-Gene