@skylark13@mastodon.gamedev.place
Post #3138557
2025-08-28 02:43 UTC
@joshbressers@infosec.exchange I'd also say lots of single maintainer projects are probably abandoned. This is just my impression, but in the last year, the PRs I've sent to single maintainer repos have generally been unanswered.
I really wonder how a project can survive that. Sure I can fork it and add my bug fixes and features, but the official web page still points to the old abandoned repo. New users will go there. If the maintainer doesn't even reply to posts about passing maintainership, what can you do?
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@joshbressers@infosec.exchange 2025-08-28 02:59
@skylark13@mastodon.gamedev.place Yeah, abandoned things is a whole other can of worms. And sometimes it's not really abandoned, it's just a very busy maintainer
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@max@gruene.social 2025-08-28 08:18
@skylark13@mastodon.gamedev.place > If the maintainer doesn't even reply to posts about passing maintainership, what can you do? Fork, create a new webpage and start seoing the other one out of listing (hard but if it's really inactive it might work), and once the domain runs out grab it (otherwise it's not really inactive though?) Alternatively one could try to offer money to buy the project but I personally would not trust such offers. @joshbressers@infosec.exchange