Is this project still active?

[paulfantom]

I like that this project exists especially that I am an active user. However, recently I started to wonder if it is still actively maintained or if you need help with maintaining it?

My question is mostly asked because I can see quite simple fixes being present in PR queue with no review at all (like this) or ones that are not merged because of requirements that are not mentioned anywhere (like here). Additionally, last release happened over a year ago and some features are available only on main branch.

I also have a PR pending review in #108 which seems like it wasn't reviewed by anyone actually maintaining the project.

On top of that, I could fork the project and do it "on my own" but this way no one wins and I would prefer this project to keep being active.

pinging @joshsizer @canterberry @vyas-n as you folks seem to be the maintainer group (at least judging by #67)

[wibed]

please fork it. i believe there to be a message about how canberry is looking for active maintainers.

[joshsizer]

Hi @paulfantom

I am still around. I can't promise any discrete timelines on anything, but I can approve and merge PRs. If you'd like to help maintain it, that would be wonderful. I believe @canterberry would have to give you the necessary privileges.

I think a large blocker to getting momentum in this repo has been our requirement for signed commits. Inevitably people are excited to suggest changes, but when we ask them to recommit with signatures, they often don't follow up. This has certainly been discouraging for me as a maintainer. @canterberry has said this is a hard requirement from his perspective, so there's not much we can do there

[paulfantom]

Regarding signed commits, you could start with a simple enablement of https://github.com/apps/dco which immediately gives back feedback to the PR author. Simple mention in README.md would be good too as right now this requirement is not surfaced anywhere.

[Mercbot7]

FWIW, per, @paulfantom 's suggestion, I think having some up front notification that Pull Request commits NEED to be signed would be very helpful.