• csolisr
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    27 days ago

    @sag Let me guess, it’s because of that Python library they depended on that was also archived?

    • Skull giver
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      87 days ago

      Looks like the maintainer has better things to do

      In post on the Gradience Discord, the tool’s primary developer David Lapshin (daudix) explains: –

      “Archiving the project […] will make it clear that Gradience is, well, unmaintained, and will prevent the issue tracker from being filled with duplicates asking when new release will be out/why nautilus sidebar is white.”

      “And, if someone will want to maintain it one day, it can always be unarchived with a press of a button.”

      • lemmyvore
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        77 days ago

        Probably a better idea would be to leave it archived. Whoever wants to take over can fork it and prove themselves by showing their work.

        The xz debacle has shown that there are risk involved in an established developer endorsing an unknown one.

      • csolisr
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        16 days ago

        @skullgiver Yep I also read about that one. Especially since the project was mostly in maintenance status for about six months. Rewriting the project to support an alternative to the now deprecated library was probably the last straw for David, he barely had time to solve bugs let alone rewrite the app