I have a package that manages file versioning that has been alpha tested
with:
* bookworm
* KDE plasma
Think like: Windows File versioning/Mac Revert. It is based on inotify.
[Before you think that couldn't be reliable, hear me out for a
discussion of safeguards I take to make it so -at some future point I
could eventually do the heavy lift to implement it as a shim to the EXT4
driver., but for now: it works..]
While there are paid backup products that do this, there's no free
solution, ready to install from the stable repos (you can suggest any
that I might have missed, and I will confirm or show how they fall
short...) Presently Windows and Mac users at this point expect
integrated versioning to just be part of a desktop OS. With the rise in
Linux desktop adoption, having access to such a product that they have
come to rely on will help reduce the friction for some users migrating
to it.
I would like to get a sponsor for this package. I have a press article
for it, and it will have a dedicated vanity domain (purchased,
org+com...) I do not expect to have it included with KDE/plasma to
start, but it would greatly stimulate interest in it if it could be
readily accessible as a separate package, and it will also facilitate
getting people to field-test it out even further (for later adoption as
an "extra" in the KDE install?)
This package could eventually be adapted to gnome and other desktops,
but to start I have focused on KDE/plasma (it has integration with the
"Dolphin" file manager, though command-line operation is eminently
usable...)
The code base is written in python, and a service uses code generated by
cython at the time its package install is done (you can also opt to have
the service run using the python codebase, should more extended
traceback analysis ever be needed...)
I have assembled a prototype deb package file, and ran it through
linitian. I will have a few brief questions about standards for whoever
my sponsor ends up being.
If this plane takes off, I will put up a wiki for its manual on its
vanity domain, and its README and [pyqt5] GUI will have a link to it. I
could also opt to use Sphinx <https://www.sphinx-doc.org/en/master> for
its documentation, which I have used before and I readily admit has a
sharp look; but mediawiki <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki> can
be helpful in garnering the assistance of others with documentation at
some later point ("many hands make light work...")
I presently have a nice article with screenshots (as of yet unpublished,
pending its hopefully eventual appearance in bookworm's stable repo...)
*I would appreciate if someone from the KDE/plasma team sponsor this
package for inclusion to the stable repos at the first practical
opportunity; again, NOT for immediate inclusion into KDE/plasma.* After
months of field testing, perhaps it can */eventually/* be considered
worthy enough for KDE extras...
Respectfully,
Steve Boriotti
Senior Developer, full stack
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About me: I am a developer with over 30 years commercial experience
(mostly in fintech...) Back in the 2000s I did code auditing of the open
source Cyrus mail server <https://www.cyrusimap.org> (using "RATS
<https://code.google.com/archive/p/rough-auditing-tool-for-security>"...)
I also happen to be a postgres advocate, and have published a python
tool for generating self-signed certificates for pgadmin (a rather hairy
multistep process when done manually...)
[https://gitlab.com/osfda/pg_ssl_init] I even furnished patches on
StackOverflow to remedy bugs in the new asynchronous psycopg3
<https://www.psycopg.org/psycopg3> driver.
