Project being maintained?

[JCotton1123]

Hi, there are 70 issues and 30 PRs currently open on this project. Is it still being maintained?

[s17t]

@yasserg Do you need hand in maintain the library / pull request ?

[yasserg]

I don't really have the time to maintain this project anymore.

[JCotton1123]

@yasserg Understood. Would you be open to granting a few of us commit access so we can maintain it?

[s17t]

@yasserg no problem, please just allow others to push maintenance and development forward. I would like to because I am using this library in active project. Thank you.

[rzo1]

We are using this library too in our projects (like @s17t )

Other option would be to conduct an official fork and then continue development on the code base on that project. @s17t @JCotton1123

[s17t]

@rzo1 I have asked a namespace to sonatype already but I would prefer not using my own fork. I contacted @yasserg on LinkedIn. Let's see...

[rzo1]

Yup - let's wait :) thx for response

[yasserg]

Ok, I can add some of you as committers. The challenge that I have had with pull requests has been that many random pull requests are submitted that are only relevant to very specific use cases or not high quality. Please go over some of the current pull requests and post your comments there why/if they should be merged or rejected or if updates are needed. Alternatively you can also submit your own pull requests if any.

[s17t]

@yasserg thank you for your kind reply. Just to cite some of PRs: #58 #78, the good part of #79 and the idea of #145 is good but I agree that implementation is too specific: maybe just providing right interfaces around frontiers would allow people to implements their own solution.

[yasserg]

@s17t I added you as committer. Please start with cleaning up #58 and get it merged. It needs some checkstyle fixes.

[EgbertW]

I'm still here ;-) I've moved along quite far from the main branch in development, because pull requests weren't accepted here I stopped bothering with creating the pull requests. I'd still prefer a central repository where development is centered so if this is being picked up again, I'd be more than happy to contribute more pull requests.

I have done a major overhaul of the queue system (slightly related to #145 but very different - it offers enormous improvements in parallel crawling. At least in my situation. Update sorry, it's already merged now I see. Anyway, I'd be happy to help.

[s17t]

@yasserg I would like to create a release. Have any hint on how create a release for maven central ? Do you have credentials for sonatype ? Thank you.

[onebeartoe]

@s17t @yasserg I setup a build job for snapshots, but it is currently failing.

It is located here:

https://onebeartoe.ci.cloudbees.com/job/crawler4j/

I realize this is not Maven Central, but at least gives access to snapshots.

The repository to add to the POM is

https://repository-onebeartoe.forge.cloudbees.com/snapshot/

At this point, are the 'semicolon missing' and other errors expected? Maybe I am missed something.

[s17t]

@onebeartoe thank you. The problem seems to be this one.