Project Abandoned?

[maltokyo]

Sorry, want to check, this has not been maintained for a while, and the current version available comes from the "fork" repo. Can someone explain how to read this?

[lundman]

fork is an upstream copy, so easier to sync with it. If we ever get merged upstream though, that changes things. Ultimately, I work on both repos.

[maltokyo]

ok, I see, I just didn't understand this description (as no development has happened here at all for several zfs versions):

[lundman]

Yeah, we forked upstream, and asked GH to disconnect the fork, so we can have a searchable repository, and we used it to develop. But to push PRs upstream, we have to use openzfs-fork, for the PRs to work. Then over time, we became stable, and development is not as frequent as it once was, now it's mostly rebase with upstream, merge in macOS work, and build. Which is far easier to do in openzfs-fork, since I have to update the macOS PR to upstream. So naturally, work moved over there.

The repositories came from the same birth, so in my mind, there is no real difference, except you can't (annoyingly) search in forked repositories. If we could, there would only be openzfs-fork.

[maltokyo]

I see, thanks a lot for explaining.

[danielb2]

So the takeaway should be that the project has not been abandoned? Filing bugs is OK?