meh. ultimately this is OSS. the maintainer was negligent. if you're not a good OSS maintainer, you don't deserve to maintain control. it's not reasonable to be indefinitely patient when the original author shows no initiative to maintain their project

They didn't even try to contact the author?!

dstat was basically presumed dead due to lack of upstream activity. I recall the internal discussion was something like

A: "Whoa, there is no dstat in RHEL8? Customers are gonna complain."

B: "Yes, it's because it's Python 2 only and upstream is dead. Tell customers to use PCP"

A: "Srsly? Nobody thinks of the scripts? Besides, dstat output is so nice."

C: "Well, there is some toy example to print pcp data in dstat format."

A: "Do we really want to tell customers 'there is a toy example'?"

C: "Give me a day or two to pimp it up."

And then C got a bit carried away. :-)

Why would you try to contact someone who's abandoned the project?

Maybe because it is the nice thing to do?

And it's not like I have disappeared from the face of the earth. I am quite active on GitHub.

Are all of those people commenting Red Hat employees ?

Well, I am at least. I care about when things like this happen, including figuring out how we can do better.

Start by fixing this issue- make it so `yum install dstat` installs the real dstat program.

Well, see below. Dag wants to just move on; the "real" dstat program is now defunct even if it wasn't before. So, we'll just keep things as they are for now.