Also, your PR is 10 days old. People go on vacation longer than that, so I would just give it a little more time before you fork. It looks as if the author was forking things 11 days ago, so I think it is premature to conclude that he/she disappeared.
From: julia-users@googlegroups.com [mailto:julia-users@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Chris Rackauckas Sent: Friday, September 2, 2016 3:48 PM To: julia-users <julia-users@googlegroups.com> Subject: [julia-users] Re: Rescuing abandoned package You can fork, update it, and then put a PR in to METADATA which changes the url for the package. Someone like @tkelman will probably try to contact the author to make sure he/she's really disappeared. Open an issue on METADATA and see if the author shows up. On Friday, September 2, 2016 at 3:34:42 PM UTC-7, Evan Fields wrote: I use the package GreatCircle <https://github.com/acrosby/GreatCircle.jl> for great circle distance calculations. On 0.4.x it generates depwarns, and it's incompatible with 0.5. I've opened a pull request with the tiny changes needed to use the package on 0.5, but there's been no response and from the author's Github profile it looks like he/she is no longer generally active. Is there a way to rescue the package in this situation? (Besides perhaps forking and renaming, which leads to cluttered package names...)
