Re: Co-maintaining Request For rdiff-backup-fs

Done, no issue.

KR, Eric

On 16/01/2026 16:49, Syed Shahrukh Hussain wrote:
> Thank you Eric for accepting me into the team!
> 
> I have received invite on my personal github account, my mistake I should have sent the official github link too.
> 
> Please send invite to this account https://github.com/Syed-Shahrukh-OSSRevival
> 
> Kind regards,
> Syed Shahrukh Hussain
> 
> 
> On Fri, Jan 16, 2026 at 08:31:50AM +0100, Eric Lavarde wrote:
>> Hi everybody,
>>
>> Syed answered offline and he looks like a genuine person, so welcome him
>> warmly to the team, he's an rdiff-backup developer now!
>>
>> @Syed let me and Patrik know if you're missing access rights to manage
>> rdiff-backup-fs on your own!
>>
>> KR, Eric
>>
>> On 14/01/2026 08:17, Eric L. wrote:
>>> Hi Syed,
>>>
>>> sorry for the long time to answer, my holiday season was a bit crazy
>>> (long travel, Smartphone broken...). Have a happy new year, y'all, BTW.
>>>
>>> First, let me state that we'd be happy to have you as co-maintainer for
>>> rdiff-backup-fs, which is indeed currently unmaintained, to the
>>> difference of rdiff-backup.
>>>
>>> At the same time, the XZ case [1] has shown us that we need to be
>>> careful, so don't take it personally (I don't know you, so it can't be
>>> personal) but I'd like to make sure you're "real".
>>>
>>> I've checked OSS Revival and will check your Pull Requests, but it would
>>> be great if you could show some prior art and "sign of life". It's a
>>> thin line, I also don't want to go into your personal life, but I owe it
>>> to our users to be cautious. Feel free to contact me offline if you
>>> don't want to go public with whichever information you provide.
>>>
>>> KR, Eric
>>>
>>> [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XZ_Utils_backdoor
>>>
>>> On 06/01/2026 08:23, Syed Shahrukh wrote:
>>>> Dear Patrik,
>>>>
>>>> Wishing you a happy new year!
>>>>
>>>> I didn't hear from you, so I thought to touch base with you.
>>>>
>>>>   From your last email, I sensed that you have plans for rdiff-backup.
>>>>
>>>> Please share, so I can align with them within my available bandwidth.
>>>>
>>>> I am still interested in co-maintaining rdiff-backup-fs,  so the package
>>>> has:
>>>> 1. Releases or tags.
>>>> 2 Fixes available on the debian side.
>>>> 3.New feature development.
>>>>
>>>> Looking forward to hearing from you.
>>>>
>>>> Kind regards,
>>>> Syed Shahrukh Hussain.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Wed, Dec 17, 2025 at 4:34 PM Patrik Dufresne <[email protected]>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hello Syed,
>>>>>
>>>>> Thank you for reaching out, and you are certainly welcome to take over
>>>>> work on the project. rdiff-backup-fs was originally salvaged by Eric as
>>>>> part of an effort to centralize everything related to
>>>>> rdiff-backup, but it
>>>>> hasn’t received much attention since then.
>>>>>
>>>>> Before moving forward, I would appreciate a bit more background
>>>>> so we can
>>>>> better understand your plans.
>>>>>
>>>>>      - What level of involvement are you expecting to have in the
>>>>> project?
>>>>>      - Will you be focusing only on maintaining the Debian
>>>>> packaging, or do
>>>>>      you intend to work on the codebase upstream as well?
>>>>>      - Do you also plan to contribute to rdiff-backup itself? Any help
>>>>>      there would be greatly appreciated.
>>>>>
>>>>> For context, I’m also developing Rdiffweb and Minarca Data
>>>>> Backup, both of
>>>>> which rely heavily on rdiff-backup. However, I haven’t had as much time
>>>>> recently to contribute to the core project as I would like, which is why
>>>>> additional maintainers would be very welcome.
>>>>>
>>>>> Looking forward to hearing more about your intentions and how
>>>>> you envision
>>>>> your role.
>>>>>
>>>>> Could you also share with us some other work you have done ?
>>>>>
>>>>> Best regards,
>>>>> On 12/16/25 09:59, Syed Shahrukh wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>
>>>>> I am a Debian contributor trying to salvage rdiff-backup-fs on Debian
>>>>>
>>>>> I am reaching for co-maintenance of rdiff-backup-fs upstream for
>>>>> long term
>>>>> maintenance.
>>>>> https://github.com/rdiff-backup/rdiff-backup-fs
>>>>>
>>>>> Present state of the repository is not suitable for future
>>>>> debian packaging.
>>>>>
>>>>> Like tags are not imported from the hg repo like in another fork.
>>>>> https://github.com/gruszczy/rdiff-backup-fs
>>>>>
>>>>> Your help ensures fixes are forwarded upstream with periodic releases of
>>>>> rdiff-backup-fs.
>>>>>
>>>>> There is a new PR from
>>>>> downstream:https://github.com/rdiff-backup/
>>>>> rdiff-backup-fs/pulls
>>>>>
>>>>> Regards,
>>>>> Syed Shahrukh Hussain.
>>>>> -- 
>>>>> OSS Revival
>>>>> Empowering open-source, one project at a time.
>>>>> *https://ossrevival.org/ <https://ossrevival.org/> <https://
>>>>> ossrevival.org/>*
>>>>>
>>>>> -- 
>>>>> Patrik Dufresne
>>>>> IKUS Software
>>>>> https://www.ikus-soft.com/
>>>>> 514-971-6442
>>>>> St-Colomban, QC J5K 1T9
>>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
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