Diskonaut fork announcement

Hello Diskonaut users and contributers

I recently learned about Diskonaut and thought it might be a cool program to use. I quickly discovered that it seems to be unmaintained, and removed from nixpkgs for being unmainted. I emailed the creator Aram Drevekenin to ask him about the status of diskonaut as a project - he did respond back to me, and he seemed to indicate that he didn't have any plans to return to maintaining the project, but he was happy for anyone else to fork it according to the terms of the free software license.

So I've done that, I forked the project at https://code.everydayimshuflin.com/greg/diskonaut , along with a Github mirror at https://github.com/neunenak/diskonaut/ . I spent a bit of time cleaning up the code, updating the dependencies to their most recent versions, and creating a 0.12 version. My plan going forward is to familiarize myself more with the codebase, try to get this fork back into nixpkgs and make sure any other Linux distributions that are packaging it know about the updates, and then maybe respond to some of the pull requests or issues that have been raised.

I've also asked Aram if he had any interest in turning over this github repository to me for the purpose of keeping the backlog of issues and pull requests around; he hasn't gotten back to me yet and he might (reasonably) not wish to do that. So people should feel free to (re)open issues and pull requests on my Github fork for the time being.

-- Greg

This issue is a fork announcement rather than a code task, and it names no files or tests. Review the linked fork and its GitHub mirror first; any contribution should be made there, since the project work has moved away from this repository.

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