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It's a bit of a catch-22:

1. I want to send a PR!

2. Project doesn't seem very active, so never mind.

Plus I'm not checking if any of my dependencies need help every day.

I took over fsnotify after it was archived because I just didn't know they needed help. Last guy spent about 5 years looking for someone to take it over. I wouldn't have minded doing it before, but ... you do need to know about it.

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How much time do you spend working on fsnotify if i may ask.

I spent quite a bit of time on it last year, a few weeks of full-time work or so, but haven't spent anything on it for quite a while. There's a bunch of things I'd like to do so I'll probably spend another burst of effort in the future.

It's kind of an annoying project to work on because everything is platform-dependent (and at times fickle) so you can't "just" run "go test ./..." but really do need to test it on all platforms. BSD and illumos aren't too much trouble, macOS is already rather painful (slow), and the experience of running Windows is not something I'm able to describe using only polite terms.

Have you tried executing the tests in github actions where the tests would run on different Operating Systems?

There's an extensive CI setup, but it takes forever to run. And even if it was fast, it would still be a frustratingly slow feedback loop while developing.

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