Taking over xdg-utils

[Alexander Larsson]

On Wed, 2020-08-26 at 16:57 +0930, Simon Lees wrote:
> Hi
> 
> On 8/26/20 1:17 AM, Piotr Karbowski wrote:
> > On 25/08/2020 16.54, David Edmundson wrote:
> > >  >Project looks kind of abandoned and I'd like to pick it up, is
> > > there
> > > anyone who can pass the access to repository?
> > > 
> > > If you want to pick a project up, don't keep asking for
> > > permission. I would 
> > > start by reviewing everyone else's patches that are already there
> > > and other such 
> > > tasks being proactive. You don't need access to do that.
> > 
> > And how do you see that going? Like, go and review pending merge
> > requests, ack them or suggest changes and then... wait with a hope
> > that
> > someone with access will actually notice it and grant the access so
> > I
> > can actually merge them? Using this logic, my own merge request is
> > reviewed by myself, is very simple and sits there for over a year
> > already, not a great motivation to go and review something that no
> > one
> > is going to merge.
> > 
> > If there was anyone in the first place who would be willing to do
> > anything with the merge requests after they were reviewed, they
> > would
> > already have done it.
> > 
> > Out of frustration I already started rewrite of xdg-utils keeping
> > it's
> > interface, in pure Python3, targeting >= 3.7, starting from xdg-
> > open,
> > then will switch to another tool. Will be dropping it on github
> > later,
> > once at least some UT are written.
> 
> I am also interested in this, there are simply to many bugs related
> to
> shell quoting behavior etc that break something else when they get
> fixed. Unfortunately I have been moved into a different team at work
> for
> the next few months and don't have alot of time atm.

Not sure how interesting it is for you, but 
https://github.com/flatpak/flatpak-xdg-utils is a reimplementation of
some of the xdg-utils on top of portals (for use in a sandbox). Its
written in C + glib, so might not be a great fit for the full xdg-utils 
though.