Re: [PATCH] libbb: rename two fields in ioloop_state, no logic changes

On Thu, 23 Apr 2026 at 22:30, Maksim Dmitrichenko via busybox
<[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Hi Charles!
>
> > Now, I say this as someone with zero official contributions to busybox
> > (who only joined this list relatively recently to try and upstream
> > some changes I had made locally and have received no traction on), but
> > I think you are the one coming in with off topic post hoc
> > rationalizations rambling about git being down and this being some way
> > of legitimizing a patch and changes happening in snapshots etc when in
> > fact there has been no trouble accessing the official git via the CLI
> > and it remains the authoritative upstream source. While I agree it
> > would be nice to see more engagement from the maintainers and webhosts
> > of the project on this list, that is outside of all of our control.
>
> The problem is that in the absence of Denys this mail list was de
> facto hijacked by Roberto who sprang into action as a pseudo
> maintainer collecting patches without any review and without declaring
> an official fork.

I love your polite use of "sprang into action" for something that we
are used to doing **before** Eric Raymond wrote the Cathedral and the
Bazaar, still a modern lecture and almost not yet understood. For sake
of your laziness (and watch out yourself in step in whatever action
your hazardous instinct might make it crosses your mind), I am adding
a link to wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cathedral_and_the_Bazaar

Pardon me if I did not send you directly to the page of book selling
on Amazon but I bet on the chance such a text is also available
on-line.

>
> Though I see https://lists.busybox.net/pipermail/busybox-cvs/2026-April/thread.html
> that Denys has committed thrice in April which gives us hope that he
> is alive and ok. But on this mail list he stopped writing on March
> 22nd.

echo chambered by Guillermo "da" Baskerville (cit. Il Nome della
Rosa), ops nope! Unfortunately... lol

On Thu, 23 Apr 2026 at 23:00, Guillermo Rodriguez Garcia via busybox
<[email protected]> wrote:
>
> In fact the last two commits are from yesterday. These add a link to a GitHub mirror in the busybox website, and modify the “Browse source” link to point to that mirror. Which means that Denys is probably aware of the problems with the web frontend of git.busybox.net.

He is alive and ok, hopefully. Or commits have been made by somebody
which has the access to his account, by good reasons or malice,
temporarily or for his last will. My bet is that, much probably, Denys
is smarter than you guys and he simply took a chance for a
break/pause. We do not know, as simply as that.

+ 2f3b16fc1 - 2026-04-12 - libbb: rename two fields in ioloop_state,
no logic changes
+ bee252057 - 2026-03-16 - trylink: remove "local" bashism

You have not been hijacked, you are also not hostages of mine, you
simply can sit and wait for the "official" git to evolve and ignore
anything else. We used to call this "freedom" before everyone
grandparents here in this list had been born alive.

Just to understand how this "freedom" principle is old, the "Agora" is
the ancient greek word to indicates the bazaar place, the public
square for social activities and the place for taking decision and in
Athens also in a "democratic" way that has nothing to do with nowadays
elections but by who does decide principle.

By that principle, you are free to wait for the return of Denys or
keep running your business, as you wish.

Best regards, R-
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