fsnotify

[nathany]

• Where is the project currently hosted?
  https://github.com/fsnotify

• Is the project written only in Go, or does it contain other languages (beyond scripts)?
  Entirely Go for https://github.com/fsnotify/fsnotify, but related project https://github.com/fsnotify/fsevents uses a fair bit of cgo in the Go code.

• Has the project had any recent activity?
  Not for several months (Jan 9).

• Does the project have a maintainer, or a maintainer looking for someone to take
  over the project?
  Been looking for maintainers for well over a year now: Maintainers wanted fsnotify/fsnotify#183
  (current project owner may still be able to help in some capacity, but has been inactive for some time)

• Are there active projects which replicate the popular functionality of this project?
  Related project that is more active: https://github.com/rjeczalik/notify

• Do you have any example projects that make use of this package?
  Many many importers: https://godoc.org/github.com/fsnotify/fsnotify?importers

• Are there any outstanding critical bugs that result in the library being
  totally unusable or insecure?
  Possibly. There are many open pull requests and issues.

• Is there anything else you'd like to mention about the project?
  I took over this project from @howeyc but have done a poor job of maintaining it as of late. I don't feel like I adequately know the file system APIs (epoll, etc.) to accept/deny pull requests at this time. May be willing to help in some areas now that I have more time available, but the project definitely needs a team if it's going to thrive.

[adamdecaf]

This should probably be one we take over as there are several notable projects using this. Has there ever been a security audit?

• Usage in Docker (moby/moby)
• Usage in elastic/beats

I'm far from an expert in this domain, but should we make noise to raise awareness?

[nathany]

I don't believe there has ever been a security audit on fsnotify.

[nathany]

Today I was able to do some work on the related fsnotify/fsevents (macOS) project. Anyone planning to be down in Denver for GopherCon this year? A good time to get organized.

Btw, we have #fsnotify on Gopher Slack.

[theckman]

I'll be there. A few others will be too. We can definitely all try to sync on this.

[nathany]

Ping @theckman

[nathany]

Hello gophers. Fsnotify could still really use some help. Ideally a couple people for each operating system that it supports.

fsnotify/fsnotify#183

[nathany]

My call for help maintaining fsnotify has had very little result in the past 5 years.

I will be officially leaving the fsnotify project whether or not anyone else picks it up.

If nobody else takes the project over soon, I will be archiving the project. That way it can still be used as-is but no more issues can be reported. Then it will be up to someone to fork it and maintain it if anyone wants to.

[nathany]

Final Notice: Maintainers Wanted
fsnotify/fsnotify#413