@webology A big issue is the maintainer acknowledging their project has stalled or is no longer maintained. I once wanted to take over a project, contacted the maintainer, and was ghosted. I forked the project and kept developing it. After a few years, I stopped the development and I archived the repo. In my opinion, a clear sign that it is no longer maintained. (1/3)
What would be nice is a space where maintainers can announce their project is up for grabs. People can search for projects, fill out a form, and the maintainer is informed somebody wants to take over their project. (2/3)
In the case of Jazzband, I saw they had a repo django-summernote. This was a fork of summernote/django-summernote and the Jazzband repo is behind the OG repo when it comes to commits. Jazzband never made a commit to the fork and it feels like they just forked to increase their repo count? (3/3)
@petervanderdoes That's interesting. It might have been some good intentions that fizzled out.
Jazzband is Jazzband and while I'm a member, I wouldn't want to move any of these there.
I was thinking about a space for projects that will likely not be maintained but we could fix the loner hanging fruit that keeps something from working with newer Python and Django versions when it's possible.
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I don't know and still asking myself about that and Thibaud and I have been discussing about this topic recently.
I think what would be very cool is to have something where you can say "hey, this repo is unmaintained but I like it/I'm using it/I've forked it" and see if there are others people with the same feeling and happy to maintain and/or support the project (advices, finance, whatever...) to avoid it be completely abandoned.
@sabderemane@thibaudcolas Interesting. I was thinking about an org for some of these lost, forked, and then minimally updated projects until they find a new home like Jazzband or a maintainer.
I could see prefixing their pypi names and republishing too.
@webology@thibaudcolas fusion of the both? Org with discussions space and some templating format and the minimal maintenance of projects until they find a new home?
What if this org become the new home? 🤔
@sabderemane@thibaudcolas More of a digital purgatory. They could find a better home but that’s probably not the goal. Just keeping them safe and installable.
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