<div dir="ltr"><div>Hi -- I am the original creator of Mosh and use it every day. I don't think the project is defunct -- we are very proud of our essentially perfect decade-long track record on security and feel like that record gets longer every day as hundreds of thousands of people, or maybe millions, continue to use it.</div><div><br></div><div>It's true that the GitHub issue tracker is clogged with feature requests (some of which would involve protocol design work and a decision to support something long-term) and support requests. That is sort of an annoying thing about GitHub... It's also true that our maintainer committed code and then became inactive; for security reasons, I don't want to just jump in and release what we have without really taking the time to re-assume the role of active maintainer and re-understand where we are, and it hasn't seemed like there is a compelling need for that to happen. A rushed release by somebody no-longer-familiar with the codebase *is* exactly the way we would screw up our security story.</div><div><br></div><div>Re: Oracle Linux, this sounds like a packaging question. We have a package for Fedora and EPEL but have never had an package maintainer for Oracle Linux. If you would like to take over this role, we'd be happy to work with you, but your relationship would need to be mostly with Oracle, not us. Or if your complaint is about the EPEL package and you think that should work, please work with the EPEL package maintainer.</div><div><br></div><div>You can see a longer note I wrote on this topic here: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28151637" target="_blank">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28151637</a></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, Oct 2, 2021 at 7:48 AM Byron Hawkins <<a href="mailto:byron.c.hawkins@gmail.com" target="_blank">byron.c.hawkins@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div><div>
<div id="gmail-m_-2897013668402190299gmail-m_-351092153054408354gmail-m_-6413037591936354168gmail-m_1675160899710454358gmail-m_1718692217060472931gmail-m_-7872495850660170112compose-body-wrapper" dir="auto"><div dir="auto">Hi, it
looks like mosh is no longer maintained. For example, it doesn't work on
Oracle Linux anymore. Bugs in the tracker on github are ignored for years.
Can you at least recommend an alternative with similar functionality and an
active project maintainer? Thanks.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Byron</div></div>
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