On Tue, May 24, 2022 at 06:58:46PM +0200, Magnus Groß <magnus.gr...@rwth-aachen.de> wrote:
> On Tue, May 24, 2022 at 09:38:50AM -0700, Kevin J. McCarthy wrote: > > As I mentioned, development is in maintenance mode, so I'm not > > committing patches to master at this point. > > Has there been any strategy on how to continue development? > Surely it is not the plan to cease development completely. > > I know that you asked for willing maintainers already, but I think you will > keep waiting forever if you expect someone to just go forward and ask for > maintainer rights. > > Perhaps it would be better to actively ask some of the major contributors if > they want to take over maintainership together, otherwise development will > never continue. > > A system could be setup where multiple of the new maintainers would need to > approve a patch and if it is a critical decision, then you could still have > the say about whether it gets merged. > > In any case I think it is time to make a new plan about how development can > continue. > > -- > Magnus I sent a patch because I knew that Kevin didn't have the time and energy to make new changes, and I thought patches might still be accepted, but of course assessing received patches still requires time and effort. A group of people to do that would be great. Is there a pool of major contributors that would be willing? It looks like most commits in the last two years are Kevin's. Many others are translation-related. Other than those, most names appear once or twice other than Remco Rijnders, Vincent Lefevre, Maxim Tarasov, William Yardley and Aitor Soroa. Sorry if I've read the commit logs badly. cheers, raf
