Future of this project?

[stargazer1984]

I quite like this rest-server project for its append-only feature and low complexity for a backup storage backend, but development seems to have stalled and while looking for alternatives, I found the rclone serve restic option that seems to work quite similar.

Is there still a reason to use rest-server over rclone serve restic or has rclone made this implementation obsolete?
Does the rclone command above actually work the same as rest-server?
Are there any plans to continue development of rest-server as an independent backend?

[MichaelEischer]

Are there any plans to continue development of rest-server as an independent backend?

There's no plan to abandon rest-server. But yes development has slowed to a crawl as I'm mostly focusing on restic at the moment.

Is there still a reason to use rest-server over rclone serve restic or has rclone made this implementation obsolete?

rest-server has additional features like verifying the checksum of uploaded files and more resilient error handling if rest-server fails for some reason.

[rogierlommers]

Thanks for all the work, @MichaelEischer . Appreciated!

[dominikschulz]

Thanks for raising this question @stargazer1984 , I was about to ask the same.

Is there any way we can support this project? I like rest-server and there are few issues that I would love to address.
Is there bandwith for code reviews on the maintainer side or should I rather just maintain my own fork with these?

[MichaelEischer]

Is there bandwith for code reviews on the maintainer side

Barely. I can't make any promises regarding whether and how quickly changes could be reviewed or even discussed.

[dominikschulz]

@MichaelEischer Appreciate the feedback. I'm familiar with that situation.

I will give my changes some more time in my local deployment to mature and if they continue to work as intended I might put them up PRs without any expectations.

Thanks for all the work!