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... >> > > _______________________________________________ >> > > Emc-developers mailing list >> > > [email protected] >> > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-developers >> > >> > 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 >> >> >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > Emc-developers mailing list >> > [email protected] >> > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-developers >> > >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Emc-developers mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-developers >_______________________________________________ >Emc-developers mailing list >[email protected] >https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-developers _______________________________________________ Emc-developers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-developers
