Hi,
> I personally do not use the library anymore and I miss the time to
> maintain it.
Just curious why you do not use it anymore, it seems very
popular the past few years.
I am actually surprised that it is. I never received any real feedback
on it, apart from a handful of tickets. The library was basically a
hobby project of mine, I never used it for anything serious and
currently I don't have any usecase for it at all. It is common knowledge
that one should not maintain OSS projects one doesn't use oneself, so in
reality I should probably have retired from maintaining it much
earlier. Finally, I am a student (not CS) who only does programming as a
side job (and, sadly, most people I come into contact with seem to think
that means I do SEO for them, which I don't), and my studies have grown
to take up so much time that any OSS project I am involved in needs
careful consideration. The main OSS project I work on is a jump'n'run
game written in C++[1], on which I work together with a number of people
rather than all alone, which makes the whole thing more attractive to me
as one can actually discuss stuff rather than having to fight for
motivation every time one thinks about it.
Another piece of software (this time in Ruby, using Sinatra) that I
currently work more intensely on is Chessboard[2], a web forum <->
mailinglist gateway that puts the mailinglist first (it especially keeps
the threading).
Fwiw, I still use zlib myself since I sometimes deal with ancient
systems without xz, and bzip2 is unusably CPU intensive (or
not even available).
Recently, I try to stick more to the stdlib than using large amounts of
RubyGems. I wrote a planet (blogroll) generator[3] using only Ruby's
stdlib because Gerald's `pluto' has a lot of RubyGem dependencies which
I don't deem necessary -- all required tools are in the stdlib, so why
give people the hassle?
Anyways, thanks for making such announcement.
I don't like people simply disappearing if the project in question has
got any amount of users. It is rude towards them. Better to draw a line
so everyone knows what is happening.
Vale,
Marvin
[1]: The Secret Chronicles of Dr. M.
[2]: GitHub - Quintus/chessboard: Small Bulletin Board forum in Ruby
[3]: https://www.guelkerdev.de/projects/uranus/
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On Mon, Jan 02, 2017 at 10:26:17PM +0000, Eric Wong wrote:
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