New package: nih-sftp-server-1.0.0

[omixann]

Testing the changes

• I tested the changes in this PR: YES

New package

• This new package conforms to the package requirements: YES

[ahesford]

We do not accept packages for projects that do not tag releases.

[omixann]

Fair, hopefully I'll receive an answer from the author and a release version to reopen the PR

[ahesford]

We are extremely unlikely to accept this even if you convince the author to tag a release. The project has five commits, only one of which does anything besides edit the two-line readme, and even that hasn't been touched in four years. This is a nascent project that was apparently stillborn.

[omixann]

I'd consider it a small enough project that was born fully featured and requires no further development (it already works as an standalone SFTP server to avoid relying on OpenSSH). Anyway, your project, your rules, and I will end up having a forked repo either way so it's not a huge loss.

I can leave a message here when (if?) I get an answer and you can either reconsider it or leave it closed, does that sound OK?

[eddylangley]

As the author of nih-sftp-server - the lack of commits is because the code was originally developed outside of github. It's not a complicated piece of code, it's stability over time is because I'm not sure what else you would want it to do. The design rationale is here https://eddylangley.net/nih-sftp-server/ - in short it's trying to be simple and self-contained and avoid the dependency thicket of openssh.
I suspect Linux has moved around it in the time since it was written so maybe there are some changes that would make it easier to package or compile for a wider range of systems.