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Clarification: Is this project being actively maintained or has it been abandoned? #403
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Hi all!
Perhaps some senior contributor can give some clarification.
Given these facts:
- The last release was on APR2021;
- The last PR merged was in MAY2021;
- The last commit was in JUN2021;
- The main contributor/maintainer @chaowlert has not been around since JUN2021;
- Which in the current COVID-19 times is very worrying.
- I hope he is doing fine.
- The release back in NOV2021 of .NET 6, the current .NET LTS version; and
- There are some PRs [390] [397] to fix Mapster for .NET 6 that haven't been reviewed/merged...
I wonder:
- Is this project being actively maintained or has it been abandoned?
- If actively maintained: Do you need help?
- If abandoned: Is there any successor or alternative recommendation?
Thanks beforehand!
Reacted by Michael Dietrich, Sergey Ovchinnikov, Alejandro Casorrán, Mathieu De Raedt, xxnickles, Eric Swann, Alejandro, Diego, Jan Skála, John and 2 more
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eswann commentedon Feb 1, 2022
Hey @johannsa and others, I also added this comment to the PR for .net 6 support.
I merged the PR, but it's been years since I've contributed to this project, and I haven't worked in the .Net space in a few years as well. As well, @chaowlert basically rewrote the entire project over time after I passed it off to him. I'm not sure what build procedures @chaowlert has been using to publish these packages out to Nuget and currently I don't have the bandwidth to figure it out.
Agreed that it looks like @chaowlert has gone dark for several months now, which is very troubling because I know he took a lot of pride in this project, so I only hope that his health is OK. I would be happy to try to set up somebody else to do the necessary work if anyone would like to volunteer.
eswann commentedon Feb 7, 2022
Just as a follow up here, I did reach out to @chaowlert on LinkedIn and he responded saying he recently has had twins and is additionally working on a time-consuming project. He told me to go ahead and promote anybody else interested to maintainer status on this project. Let me know if there's any takers. :)
FariborzRazban commentedon Feb 12, 2022
is the issue for dotnet 6 resolved? i'm still having the same problem :(
andrerav commentedon Feb 12, 2022
@eswann I haven't made any contributions to this project previously, but I'd be happy to help out to ensure that it stays active. I already maintain a few open source projects (NHibernate.Spatial as well as some pet projects) as well as their corresponding packages on NuGet.
FariborzRazban commentedon Feb 13, 2022
@eswann I'd like to help as well but I have zero experience with open source projects however, I'm dotnet dev for more than 10 years now so, i'm looking for some trouble if you guys would have me
eswann commentedon Feb 14, 2022
Thanks @andrerav! I've invited you to the org. Can you give me your Nuget user name so I can add you in there?
eswann commentedon Feb 14, 2022
@FariborzRazban I have added you to the project as well! If you have a nuget username, please provide it to me.
andrerav commentedon Feb 14, 2022
@eswann Great, thank you, I have accepted the invitation. My nuget username is the same as my GitHub username, i.e andrerav.
eswann commentedon Feb 14, 2022
@andrerav You now have access to the Nuget package for Mapster. I don't have access to the ancillary packages. We'd have to ask @chaowlert to add you to those.
FariborzRazban commentedon Feb 15, 2022
I think you can find me on nugget with this: Razban