Create you move this repository into the openfortivpn organization?

[Neustradamus]

Dear @adrienverge,

Thanks for your openfortivpn work!

Can you transfer this repository into the @openfortivpn organization?

GitHub adds redirections after transfer, no lost.

It will be really better for the current team to manage, etc.

Thanks in advance.

[DimitriPapadopoulos]

I am not the maintainer. Actually, I don't have much time any more to devote to openfortivpn.

[adrienverge]

Hello @Neustradamus, I understand that you would find it "really better", but I don't see the benefit of doing so. For info we already discussed this question with "the current team" some time ago.

[Neustradamus]

@adrienverge: Only you can do it.
Example, you leave GitHub, the project is always blocked because of you.

The history, "Issues" and "PRs" are only here.

Your latest participation is old (2023-02-25):

• https://github.com/adrienverge/openfortivpn/commits?author=adrienverge

If you do not transfer this repository, @DimitriPapadopoulos will need to fork this repository to have in @openfortivpn organization (the good place), and after he will need to contact GitHub to detach the fork from upstream but all forks are linked to this repository. So all people need to remove this personal fork and to create a new one, and need to create new issues too, etc..

Note: After a very long battle with GitHub and the new maintainer of one project, not easy, several years, I have realized the transfer of an important project from a died person (RIP) because the dead was announcement at several places in the past.

[DimitriPapadopoulos]

I do not intend to fork this repository and I don't have time to help much with openfortivpn any more.

With that said, I hear your concern. However, we have been looking for volunteers to help maintain the project, without success so far. That's the real problem.

[Neustradamus]

@DimitriPapadopoulos: Changes have been integrated in upstream?

• https://github.com/openfortivpn/snap

[DimitriPapadopoulos]

You're mistaken, there's no "upstream".

[Neustradamus]

@DimitriPapadopoulos: https://github.com/openfortivpn/snap is a fork, upstream is currently https://github.com/adrienverge/openfortivpn ;)

[adrienverge]

@Neustradamus my latest participation is not old, I periodically create new releases and follow everything that's happening here. With the huge help of @DimitriPapadopoulos, this repository is still alive.

But as Dimitri says: the real problem is the lack of volunteers to help maintaining the project. It's not about changing the repository URL, in my opinion.

[Neustradamus]

@adrienverge: Good, you confirm that it still alive because @DimitriPapadopoulos is here :)
So it will be very logic to transfer in the organization managed by all of you two.

After this repository transfer, redirections will be here, no lost, example of previous transfers:

• https://github.com/nerzhul/ocsms -> https://github.com/nextcloud/ocsms | https://github.com/nerzhul/ocsms/releases/tag/2.2.0 -> https://github.com/nextcloud/ocsms/releases/tag/2.2.0
• https://github.com/tigaseinc/tigase-server -> https://github.com/tigase/tigase-server
• https://github.com/boothj5/profanity -> https://github.com/profanity-im/profanity
• https://github.com/asciimoo/searx -> https://github.com/searx/searx
• ...

[DimitriPapadopoulos]

To clarify, I don't have much time to devote to openfortivpn any more.

The real issue is finding an experienced volunteer to maintain openfortivpn and help with the necessary changes:

• Use systemd-resolved when available, or better yet switch to vpnc-scripts to set routing and DNS parameters.
• Support IPv6 - switching to vpnc-scripts would help considerably.
• Address 2FA.
• Work on compatibility with the FortiClient Endpoint Management Server (EMS).

[Neustradamus]

@DimitriPapadopoulos: For the future of openfortivpn, it is better to move it into the @openfortivpn organization.

It is easy to manage a project in the @openfortivpn existing organization by @adrienverge and you.

If @adrienverge is not member, you must to add him here:

• https://github.com/orgs/openfortivpn/people

Do not forget to add you in public too.

In more, you can add new team members (volunteers) easily.

It is a needed step.

Thanks in advance.