Donation of go-flock

[theckman]

Where is the project currently hosted?

https://github.com/theckman/go-flock

What languages other than Go does the project utilize?

Pure Go, but does have some gnarly Windows system calls.

When was the project's last activity?

~19 days ago.

Does the project have a maintainer, or a maintainer looking for someone to take
over the project?

Yeah. I'm not actively looking, but with it being the most popular flock package (according to imports) it seems good to make sure to maintain it.

What active projects replicate the popular functionality of this project, if any?

There don't appear to be any direct competitors. Plenty of projects have implemented their own flock in subpackages.

What are some example projects that make use of this package?

https://github.com/theckman/cronner
https://github.com/stripe/veneur

Are there any outstanding critical bugs that result in the library being
totally unusable or insecure?

Nope, should be pretty stable.

Please provide a link to the project importers from https://godoc.org. Example: https://godoc.org/github.com/gofrs/uuid?importers

https://godoc.org/github.com/theckman/go-flock?importers

What else would you like to mention about the project?

[theckman]

@gofrs/all Considering my biases, would someone be willing to handle the investigation of this project to see if it's a good fit for us?

[niaow]

So: package is relatively straightforward, and imported by 22 packages. I don't think that this would be too much of a maintenance burden. Here are some things that would need to be done:

1. finish/merge this PR: Add an explicit Close function flock#21
2. review the API and make any possible fixes/simplifications
3. release a v1 for SemVer stability guarantees.
4. add go.mod
5. some small potential optimizations

This package is simple and useful.

Also, this would provide many simple issues which could be good-first-issue.

[niaow]

Repo will be transferred soon. This will also help us see how viable a repo transfer is for gofrs projects.

[adamdecaf]

+1 to adopting this project. The code is straightforward enough and self contained.

I updated CI settings a bit: gofrs/flock#23

Right now go-flock is the top result for Go "lock file" queries: https://github.com/search?q=language%3Ago+%22file+lock%22

Fun tidbit: This project was almost added to dep: golang/dep#1117

[theckman]

I'm on a short vacation this weekend, so it'll likely not happen until early next week (unless I get some spare alone time).

[theckman]

Was hoping PR 21 would get updated so I could merge it before moving the project.

[theckman]

Merged. Will migrate now.

[theckman]

Done: https://github.com/gofrs/flock