linuxcnc-ethercat user on GitHub should be the place to take over, I'll try to 
reach out to Scott, see what's his plan. 

On April 11, 2026 6:43:25 AM GMT+08:00, rodw <[email protected]> wrote:
>I don't think you can use grotius's repo as Scott Laird's current repo at   
>https://github.com/linuxcnc-ethercat    includes a lot of enhancements that 
>Grotius will not include.
>Grotius includes a header file from etherlab's Ethercat master repo   
>https://etherlab.org/en_GB/ethercat   Whilst, it is required to compile, it 
>should not be just copied into the project.
>A better source might be the libethercat-dev package.
> 
>Finally, it ignores the project history. Why not use my fork or anybody elses 
>at random? Scott Laird had permission from the original developer Sasha Itnner 
>to take over the project and developed workflows that published his Deb files 
>to the etherlab repositories. Prior to Scott arriving on the scene, etherlab 
>also had Sasha's consent to host his repo and were doing so before Scott 
>started adding enhancements. Sasha has been active in discussions on Scott's 
>repository in 2026. Sasha tells people on his repo to    use Scotts.    There 
>are only two valid sources should linuxcnc take it over:
>Scott Laird's   https://github.com/linuxcnc-ethercat  
>Luca's   https://github.com/grandixximo/linuxcnc-ethercat  
> 
>I think the preferred course would be work from Scott's and Luca should send 
>his recent and important PR to the new repo. workflows should then publish the 
>deb files to the Linuxcnc repository.
> 
>Rod Webster  
>
> 
>On 2026-04-11 06:31, Amit Goradia  <[email protected]>  wrote:
>> On Tue, Apr 7, 2026 at 6:06 PM Bari  <[email protected]>  wrote:
>>
>> >  After 4 months of no replies I'd call that abandoned. How much longer
>> >  should you wait? Fork it publicly and move on with our lives. It's
>> >  trivial to merge later IF the other fork maintainer reappears. People
>> >  get sick or worse, have kids, loose interest, etc etc.
>> >
>> >
>> Bari, your sentence phrasing is really hilarious if you do not parse the
>> comma properly...
>> People get sick or worse, have kids... LOL...
>>
>>
>> >  On 4/7/26 4:04 AM, Luca Toniolo wrote:
>> >   >  Scott has been out for about 4 months, no answers no merging, does
>> >  anyone else have the administration access to the
>> >  linuxcnc-ethercat/linuxcnc-ethercat repo on GitHub? Users on the forum 
>> > have
>> >  been pointed to my fork, but I am not sure that is proper, Sascha's work 
>> > is
>> >  not compatible at the moment, need some guidance from a maintainer for
>> >  direction on the project...
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>> >  Luca, I agree with Bari, 4 months with no response can be construed as
>> abandoned. Also, the Go dependencies introduced in this project was a bit
>> of a bother anyways.
>> I'd much prefer to use grotius' fork available at
>> https://codeberg.org/skynet/linuxcnc-ethercat where he moved everything to
>> a CMake file although he lost most of the directory structure.
>> -automata
>>
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