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FYI Rocket has revived, and I heard recently he (Sergio) has made plans for a Rocket foundation so that the development team can be expanded and there is no lon

FYI Rocket has revived, and I heard recently he (Sergio) has made plans for a Rocket foundation so that the development team can be expanded and there is no longer SPOF

nindalf 4y ago
I respect Sergio but I’ve heard that like too many times in the last 3 years. Every few months it’s the same excitement whenever some activity is spotted on the repo. It always ends the same way - stalled yet again. The goodwill earned has been squandered. I’ll believe in rocket when I see releases being cut. Until then I strongly recommend no one touch rocket.
- capitainenemo 4y ago
  So, the last time I asked on #rocket they told me the release was basically done, but they were not going to move past RC until the documentation was completed, which seems stalled. Is there anything else missing that you heard of?
  - nindalf 4y ago
    I’ve heard that story many times. Maybe it’s true this time. I’m not going to stick around to find out because I got burned before.
    - capitainenemo 4y ago
      Can you give a bit more detail on the burning bit? Just want to know if there's anything missing in particular from the 1.5 release besides the docs.
- db48x 4y ago
  Why do other people need to be working on a library for it to be useful to you? Can’t you pitch in?
  - nindalf 4y ago
    No I actually can’t because during these hiatuses there were many PRs submitted. These weren’t merged in because the author didn’t review them. Why does HN have this urge to write this template comment of “oh it’s free software, no complaining no matter how bad the governance is, you should pitch in even if there’s no conceivable way to do so”. Like, did you even bother learning anything about rocket before writing this comment? Did you feel very virtuous when you wrote it?
    - db48x 4y ago
      I use rocket myself. There’s nothing huge missing, and nothing stops you from merging those PRs into your own repository (public or private) if you want them. How then is there no conceivable way to pitch in?
- Grimburger 4y ago
  It's weird seeing this sentiment when Sergio is on matrix answering questions all the time and the contributor graph for alternatives like Axum is basically identical, one person making all the commits, another person doing a fair amount of work, and the rest are drive-by PR's. Seems more like an entitled open source user issue rather than a repo issue, he's never slept on any security notifications as far as I know. The 0.5 release was a big re-write, it takes time. I likely will still use 0.4 in future because not having to mess around with async is nicer and it's still perfectly fast enough for many usecases.
  - norman784 4y ago
    The issue is that in the past rocket author went missing and no one could take the lead to continue the development, axum in the other hand is under tokio org, so the community could take the lead in that regard. I loved rocket when I first learned about it, now two years passed and it stalled because no one could pick up the project, there were (I don’t know it there still are) a lot of PR's from the community that were waiting for someone to review and merge it. But if rocket is being migrating to an org, kudos to the project and hope it continues to innovate like in the past.

FYI Rocket has revived, and I heard recently he (Sergio) has made plans for a Rocket foundation so that the development team can be expanded and there is no longer SPOF

nindalf 4y ago

I respect Sergio but I’ve heard that like too many times in the last 3 years. Every few months it’s the same excitement whenever some activity is spotted on the repo. It always ends the same way - stalled yet again. The goodwill earned has been squandered. I’ll believe in rocket when I see releases being cut. Until then I strongly recommend no one touch rocket.

capitainenemo 4y ago
So, the last time I asked on #rocket they told me the release was basically done, but they were not going to move past RC until the documentation was completed, which seems stalled. Is there anything else missing that you heard of?
- nindalf 4y ago
  I’ve heard that story many times. Maybe it’s true this time. I’m not going to stick around to find out because I got burned before.
  - capitainenemo 4y ago
    Can you give a bit more detail on the burning bit? Just want to know if there's anything missing in particular from the 1.5 release besides the docs.
db48x 4y ago
Why do other people need to be working on a library for it to be useful to you? Can’t you pitch in?
- nindalf 4y ago
  No I actually can’t because during these hiatuses there were many PRs submitted. These weren’t merged in because the author didn’t review them. Why does HN have this urge to write this template comment of “oh it’s free software, no complaining no matter how bad the governance is, you should pitch in even if there’s no conceivable way to do so”. Like, did you even bother learning anything about rocket before writing this comment? Did you feel very virtuous when you wrote it?
  - db48x 4y ago
    I use rocket myself. There’s nothing huge missing, and nothing stops you from merging those PRs into your own repository (public or private) if you want them. How then is there no conceivable way to pitch in?
Grimburger 4y ago
It's weird seeing this sentiment when Sergio is on matrix answering questions all the time and the contributor graph for alternatives like Axum is basically identical, one person making all the commits, another person doing a fair amount of work, and the rest are drive-by PR's. Seems more like an entitled open source user issue rather than a repo issue, he's never slept on any security notifications as far as I know. The 0.5 release was a big re-write, it takes time. I likely will still use 0.4 in future because not having to mess around with async is nicer and it's still perfectly fast enough for many usecases.
- norman784 4y ago
  The issue is that in the past rocket author went missing and no one could take the lead to continue the development, axum in the other hand is under tokio org, so the community could take the lead in that regard. I loved rocket when I first learned about it, now two years passed and it stalled because no one could pick up the project, there were (I don’t know it there still are) a lot of PR's from the community that were waiting for someone to review and merge it. But if rocket is being migrating to an org, kudos to the project and hope it continues to innovate like in the past.