Community Process Question – dependencies, forking, maintainer contact

[kokolegorille]

I cannot answer your question, but I can tell some projects have been forked for the same reasons.

Shall we start an ElixirLS fork?

I use Visual Studio Code, and the ElixirLS extension is a must have to code in Elixir. Unfortunately, it seems to have gone stale over the past few months, and I seem to have read that the author didn’t have much time nor energy to keep track of the open issues and PRs. At the time of writing the last commit is from August, but what concerns me the most is that it depends on the elixir_sense repo which has been renamed since April, has received more than 130 commits since but has not yet been …

I've forked Arc to Waffle and merged all open PRs

Hi, I would like to tell about my initiative to further maintain and develop Waffle project which is the fork of Arc library. The progress I made during the last couple of months is that I’ve merged all open pull requests, published the library to the hex.pm. Also, I’m streaming my work on the project on Twitch The next changes I’m working on right now is to cover all available features in the documentation and also implement the proper file validation with magic bytes. I would…

If You try to contact the maintainer, but have no responses… You might have no choice but to fork.

BTW If You publish on hex, your solution 1 might not work because I am not sure it can be reverted. See this post

Benchee & formatters - easy and extensible (micro) benchmarking

Parking names or package squatting is against the code of conduct so if you notice it please let us know at support@hex.pm. The bunny package does not break this rule since it has functionality. Unused or abandoned packages will always stay on hex.pm because there is no way of knowing if they are in fact unused in reality. We have never gone through and deleted unused packages, but we may delete packages with no functionality or with only “hello word” because they are against the squatting poli…