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I agree with you, but that doesn't seem to be what's happening here. It looks like people are contributing, but that the contributors are realizing that the ma
by LukeShu 6y ago
I agree with you, but that doesn't seem to be what's happening here. It looks like people are contributing, but that the contributors are realizing that the maintainers/leaders have all vanished.
So really there are 3 possible outcomes here:
1. the contributors pressure one of the maintainers to come back,
2. the contributors get in touch with one of the maintainers and convince them to promote some contributors to maintainers, or
3. the contributors fork Cairo, because they can't get a maintainer involved.
The email comes from a contributor, who is effectively saying "last call for (1) or (2), and then I'm doing (3)".
- wolco2 6y agoForking is the ideal solution here. Leave Cairo what it is and continue development in the direction you want. In time those changes can be merged back in if the orginal project continues. Pressuring maintainers to come back is foolish.
- abraae 6y ago> Pressuring maintainers to come back is foolish. Unless that pressure has some impact on the maintainer's boss(es).
- _-___________-_ 6y agoThe issue with forking is that you take on a lot more responsibility than you did by submitting a PR. Many of the people submitting PRs probably already contribute to projects that depend on Cairo. They may even maintain those projects. They may not have spare bandwidth to take on the maintenance of Cairo too.