How does this compare to other forks, and what's the longerm plan?

[apparle]

What's the difference with this fork and @beatkind's fork https://github.com/beatkind/watchtower ?
See specifically beatkind#142 - it seems like both these forks have come out of necessity of maintenance and not necessarily a core SW direction. Assuming the long term direction is not expected to diverge for both these forks, maybe both efforts should be merged together to reduce work on both repos?

[nicholas-fedor]

This diff is the best source of truth regarding the differences between the two repositories. This discussion also provides some general information regarding the changes that I've made. In short, I have made substantial efforts to modernize the codebase, improve maintainability, and add robustness beyond just updating the dependencies. Beatkind has merged a couple of PR's from contributors; however, his fork is largely unchanged from the upstream version.

My fork came out of the fact that the original version of Watchtower has been abandoned and the repository owners/maintainers are MIA. I use Watchtower to keep my services updated, so it made perfect sense to fork the project and go through the process of updating and modernizing it. As to long-term plans, there's plenty of work that can be done, but under a different project name, license, etc.

[nicholas-fedor]

This thread is being closed as it's old and inactive.