[syslinux] Is syslinux still worked on? No new commits in git for about one year

[Joakim Tjernlund]

On Thu, 2018-10-18 at 12:14 +0200, Didier Spaier via Syslinux wrote:
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> On 10/17/18 8:54 PM, KARBOWSKI Piotr via Syslinux wrote:
> > Is syslinux still under active development? I do not see any new commit in git repo for about a year.
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> Hi,
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> I think that you pretty much answered your question.
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> My assumption is developers and potential developers are busy with other
> projects, like sub-systems of the Linux kernel or GRUB.
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> For instance there is an heavy traffic here:
> http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/grub.git/log/
> and also there:
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/grub-devel/2018-10/threads.html
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> This is just a guess from an end user, though.

syslinux probably needs one more maintainer, one that can do release mgmt, pre rels., apply patches
from the community etc. All the stuff needed besides develop & fix bugs in the code.

  Jocke