What if we request to add gatekeepers to the project, and additional
domain/wiki managers?
I would prefer for clarity it doesn't fork, there's a strong brand/history and
moving it all would lead to confusion.
Did you talk at length with any of the original owners?
Cheers,Luc
On Saturday, October 11, 2025 at 09:18:53 AM GMT+9, Evan Foss
<[email protected]> wrote:
I hope it continues too. My thanks to the people who carried it this far.
On Thu, Oct 9, 2025 at 9:41 AM Adrian Godwin <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> I also hope it won't die. I think it's well worth supporting.
> I'm not in a great position to do that myself but will try to do something if
> I can.
>
> I have been watching the project for a while, and think that the original
> developers burnt out (too many demands, not enough encouragement, not enough
> help) and that the reviewing was a major sticking point. I don't want to
> attach any blame there. I don't know whether it was a need for more
> reviewers, a lack of submissions, or what.
>
> Personally I didn't feel up to reviewing to the proper standards. I felt it
> was a project with very good standards and didn't want to compromise that.
>
> I think it could be revived and if we had written requirements for how it was
> to be reviewed I could be convinced to help. I'm not aware of any particular
> split or loss of people, tey just faded out of conversation one at a time. I
> don't know if any could be persuaded to return or even just advise on what
> was most needed.
>
> If we can't easily and with cooperation set up replacements for the
> organisation, I think a good idea might be to fork it. We can acknowledge the
> original work but admit we're a new team and that any failings are not due to
> the original codebase. I would not be happy unless it was clear the problems
> are due to a falling off of community support rather than historical failings.
>
>
> On Thu, Oct 9, 2025 at 2:16 PM Ladislav Laska <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> Hi all!
>>
>> It's sad that sigrok is not receiving much attention and I understand
>> the original maintainer(s) might not have the time or interest to
>> continue development. However, the project still works great for many
>> use cases and there are a lot of PRs open on github, many of them
>> reasonably new - currently being ignored and authors demotivated.
>>
>> I think the community should offer a helping hand with the project and
>> offer at least some basic support in running the project. Depending on
>> how the original authors want to be involved, I think it would be a good
>> idea to appoint some community maintainers (ideally somebody who
>> contributed in the past) and give them enough privileges to merge PRs
>> and potentially release new versions. Alternatively, people could
>> volunteer to review & test PRs -- I'm up to looking into some, but it is
>> unclear if it would lead to something, since not even some simple ones
>> are being merged for around a year.
>>
>> What is the general sentiment about this? Is there a will to help keep
>> the project running from the community & current maintainers?
>>
>> I hope we won't let the project just die, since it's a crucial piece of
>> opensource software in the embedded engineer's toolbox.
>>
>> Best regards,
>> Ladislav
>>
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