achempion
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 appreciate any feedback or star on GitHub
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achempion
Wow, 29 stars so far. Thank you all so much for support!
Nefcairon
Forgive me, but I am absolutely a greenhorn about library management.
Why did not you continue arc but forked it and renamed it? Is Arc unmaintained?
cnck1387
When it came to making this decision did you weigh the pros and cons vs making a new library instead of forking Arc? In other words, in a best case scenario as of today do you still think the arc model of dealing with file uploads is the way to go?
Also are you currently using this project in a large scale production roll out?
OvermindDL1
I’m pretty sure the issue was that Arc had a lot of open issues and a lot of open PR’s but no one was managing, merging, or keeping up with Arc for over a year at this point. At that point you can’t do much but fork and continue. ^.^;
Kurisu
We really need a maintained library for files upload mater. So thank you for sharing this one.
Please do you plan also an alternative to arc_ecto ? That would be great!
cnck1387
Yep, but I recall there also being other libs that took a completely different approach to file uploads than arc.
OvermindDL1
Yep, and those still exist and are mostly kept up to date. Arc just has a lot of users and the fact it was dead was harmful to those projects when needed bug fixes needed to get in. Thus Waffle is to keep that same code persisting and still updating.
achempion
Arc is under Apache license, so, you can’t just fork it and use the old name. It was my first thought to do it, but unfortunately you have to change the name if you want to fork something under Apache license
Also, you want to publish the library to the registry and the old name is already taken. This is how the Waffle name was born.
achempion
Absolutely! I’ve forked
arc_ectoto the waffle_ecto as well. This library is under the same GitHub organisation.To my surprise we already have new adapters from community as waffle_gcs for integration with Google Cloud.
achempion
We are actively using it with several projects now. One of them is https://vocab10k.com (an app to learn English words and practice pronunciation).
Also, my company (evrone.com) is supporting open source initiatives and I’m open to work on the library as many time as I want.