[schilytools] Anybody out there?

[Jens Finkhaeuser]

Hi!

Since I'm a member of Codeberg e.V., of course I have to promote that
as a great place for FOSS in Germany.

But at the end of the day, I have little riding on that.

Jens

On Sun, May 15, 2022 at 10:57:42PM +0300, Hakan Bayındır wrote:
> I think a read-only source repository with no PRs, issues and discussion can be opened as a “mirror” under GitHub for exposure is a good idea. The readme can direct people to the correct place for “interacting” with repository, but it’ll provide yet another mirror for people to find and get the whole source tree.
> 
> There are some repositories operating like that as far as I remember, but the names didn’t pop up to my mind.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Hakan
> 
> > On 14 May 2022, at 19:35, Dennis Clarke via schilytools <schilytools at mlists.in-berlin.de> wrote:
> > 
> > On 5/14/22 08:22, Robert Clausecker wrote:
> >> Hi there,
> >> I'm sorry for not giving a status update earlier.
> >> The situation is as follows: We finished cleaning out his apartment
> >> last month and are now in the process of sorting through the data
> >> he has left. Unfortunately we have yet to find the version control
> >> files of the schilytools, preventing us from setting up a new
> >> project properly.
> >> I originally wanted to wait until these files were obtained so I
> >> could have the project with all the history, but it seems like it
> >> could take a lot longer until we find these version control files.
> >> Jörg left a lot of data and he was quite paranoid about his version
> >> control files ever since a company stole his DVD burning code for a
> >> commercial product, so it might be hidden in some way we have not
> >> figured out yet.
> >> On the other hand, it seems like there is significant interest in
> >> continuing development on the code base, so I think I'll go ahead
> >> and set up something temporary the next days. It has been long
> >> enough already.
> >> Yours,
> >> Robert Clausecker
> > Other people have already begun to move forward. At the very least the
> > BLAKE2s and BLAKE2b hash algorithms were implemented into mdigest. The
> > entire make system however is truely "special".
> > 
> > https://gitlab.com/herrhotzenplotz/schilytools.git
> > 
> > Personally I am motivated to rescue the sources also and I don't really
> > care where they land but please not on damn github. Sourcehut would be
> > far far better. There have even been live streams about working on the
> > code.
> > 
> > -- 
> > Dennis Clarke
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