On 10/3/24 14:02, stev...@osfda.org wrote:
I have a package that manages file versioning that has been alpha tested
with:
* bookworm
* KDE plasma
I apologize if I'm overlooking it, but could you please link to the source code
of this project, as well as your packaging of the deb?
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..]
This sounds interesting!
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 disagree here; there are tools that do this. Git and ZFS and sanoid come to
mind, but these are not terribly new-user friendly.
There's also Nextcloud [1], (granted, the server is not packaged in stable).
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...
I recommend reading [2] if you plan on maintaining this package yourself in
Debian.
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.
Best,
Antonio
[1]
https://docs.nextcloud.com/server/20/admin_manual/configuration_files/file_versioning.html
[2] https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/maint-guide/
