Project State and Maintenance

[deepbrook]

Hey everyone,

Please note that due to personal changes over the last year, I was not able to properly maintain this project. I did work on it, but most of it included trying things out, behind the scenes and in a very opaque manner.

I appreciate everyone opening issues and submitting pull requests to this project - it reminds me that this project is indeed a useful addition to the FOSS community.

This issue was opened to confirm that this project is, in fact, not dead - It was one of my first ever open-source projects, and I have poured dozens, if not hundreds of hours of my personal time into it. However, I freely admit that I do not have the time to live up to the quality of support I'd like to provide for this project.

Having said that, I will try to be more transparent on what the plan is for this project, what things need to be done - how excellent people like you can help me out - and what I currently concern myself with.

I therefore opened up several project boards. For the time being, I will aim to populate these boards with descriptive issues, update documentation for contributors and set up a pipeline that allows everyone to more easily contribute. Because, while I love this project, I'll likely won't be able to pour as much hours into it as I did over the first year of its development. So your help will be needed, and very much appreciated.

During the first quarter of 2019 I will have more time at hand to actually develop things too - but for now, documentation and pipeline setup are my biggest concerns.

Once this is done, I am likely going to pass on maintainership. I will still contribute to the project, but it deserves someone that uses it often, knows it's intricate details and - most importantly - has the time to properly tend to it.

Again, thanks to everyone using this library - with over 400 stargazers on github, I do feel like a tiny little rock star. I would have never thought it would be useful to as many people as it is today.

Cheers,

Nils