Is this project dead...? (...And details of an active spin-off project)

[carlspring]

Hi,

I've tried reaching out a few times (@jarnaiz , #133 , #134), regarding the future of your project, as well as clarifications around the licensing.

We can see that the OSS community need a library like this and we also understand that running such a project is hard work that requires both expert knowledge, resources and free time. In an effort to continue your work, we have created a spin-off project called s3fs-nio, (for more details, you can check here). It appears that a lot of pull requests against your upstream have not been accepted and merged and quite a few of them seem to be very useful. In addition, the fact that all these pull requests have not been merged, has caused a plethora of forks in which people have fixed bits and pieces just for their own needs (and most of these forks have died off, which is unfortunate). To avoid any confusion about our fork being a fresh new one under active development, we've decided to create a rebranded spin-off project, based on your current master. We would like to rebuild the community around our project and will reach out to all of the contributors of these pull requests and ask them to join our efforts in building and maintaining an active project with a helpful community in the s3fs-nio. We have also established connections with some fine chaps from Amazon who have been helping with advice and the reviews of pull requests.

We have migrated to AWS SDK v2, upgraded all of the dependencies and done a big clean up of the code. We are actively working on new issues and would like to invite anyone interested in helping out!

If this project is indeed dead, it would be great to have an official confirmation from you guys.

It would also be great to get a confirmation of what your license really is ( #134 ), as it seems to be a mixture of both Apache 2.0 and MIT.

We would like to thank you for all the hard work you have put in this project and hope you will get in touch.

Kind regards,

Martin

[carlspring]

For anyone interested, we've cut a 1.0.0 release of s3fs-nio and it's available via Maven Central. (You can check here as well).

@jarnaiz : Thanks for your hard work on the original project! :)