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The gorrila/mux project is weird and I am confused by it. Last year the maintainers archived the gorrila/mux project. Therefore i switched to another multiplexo

The gorrila/mux project is weird and I am confused by it. Last year the maintainers archived the gorrila/mux project. Therefore i switched to another multiplexor called gin-gonic. Now as i saw the OP mentioning it in their blog, i went to take a look at the gorrila/mux project again to verify i correctly remembered the project to be archived. Apparently its not archived anymore, which brings the stability of the whole project to the question, or maybe it proves that Open Source is actually very stable. That if a project is missing developers, some other people can step up and start maintaining the solution. But its nice that this functionality will be provided by Golang itself.

figmert 3y ago
The ownership transfer was publicly announced in quite a few places. Most notably gorilla's blog[0], but also on Reddit[1] as well as HN[2], though it didn't get much reaction on HN. [0] https://gorilla.github.io/blog/2023-07-17-project-status-update/ https://gorilla.github.io/blog/2023-07-17-project-status-upd... [1] https://www.reddit.com/r/golang/comments/1528e25/gorilla_web_toolkit_new_maintainers_announcement/ https://www.reddit.com/r/golang/comments/1528e25/gorilla_web... [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36935541 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36935541
- Cupprum 3y ago
  Yes, but the ownership transfer happened quite some time after the project was tagged as archived, which from my side was a flag to move to a solution which is actively maintained. But i am glad to see that the project is getting attention again, i liked using gorilla/mux. But its even nicer that there is going to be out of the support for similar baked into golang.
- danpalmer 3y ago
  In my experience most developers are not connected to the development processes of their dependencies. Maybe they should be, I think there's an argument for it, but with so many dependencies there's only so much time and attention. I think any migration such as this should be done on the assumption that most people won't know it's happening.
  - arp242 3y ago
    It's a bit of a catch-22: 1. I want to send a PR! 2. Project doesn't seem very active, so never mind. Plus I'm not checking if any of my dependencies need help every day. I took over fsnotify after it was archived because I just didn't know they needed help. Last guy spent about 5 years looking for someone to take it over. I wouldn't have minded doing it before, but ... you do need to know about it.
    - Cupprum 3y ago
      How much time do you spend working on fsnotify if i may ask.
      - arp242 3y ago
        I spent quite a bit of time on it last year, a few weeks of full-time work or so, but haven't spent anything on it for quite a while. There's a bunch of things I'd like to do so I'll probably spend another burst of effort in the future. It's kind of an annoying project to work on because everything is platform-dependent (and at times fickle) so you can't "just" run "go test ./..." but really do need to test it on all platforms. BSD and illumos aren't too much trouble, macOS is already rather painful (slow), and the experience of running Windows is not something I'm able to describe using only polite terms.
        Cupprum 3y ago
        Have you tried executing the tests in github actions where the tests would run on different Operating Systems?
        arp242 3y ago
        There's an extensive CI setup, but it takes forever to run. And even if it was fast, it would still be a frustratingly slow feedback loop while developing.
  - pdimitar 3y ago

figmert 3y ago

The ownership transfer was publicly announced in quite a few places. Most notably gorilla's blog[0], but also on Reddit[1] as well as HN[2], though it didn't get much reaction on HN. [0] https://gorilla.github.io/blog/2023-07-17-project-status-update/ https://gorilla.github.io/blog/2023-07-17-project-status-upd... [1] https://www.reddit.com/r/golang/comments/1528e25/gorilla_web_toolkit_new_maintainers_announcement/ https://www.reddit.com/r/golang/comments/1528e25/gorilla_web... [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36935541 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36935541

Cupprum 3y ago
Yes, but the ownership transfer happened quite some time after the project was tagged as archived, which from my side was a flag to move to a solution which is actively maintained. But i am glad to see that the project is getting attention again, i liked using gorilla/mux. But its even nicer that there is going to be out of the support for similar baked into golang.
danpalmer 3y ago
In my experience most developers are not connected to the development processes of their dependencies. Maybe they should be, I think there's an argument for it, but with so many dependencies there's only so much time and attention. I think any migration such as this should be done on the assumption that most people won't know it's happening.
- arp242 3y ago
  It's a bit of a catch-22: 1. I want to send a PR! 2. Project doesn't seem very active, so never mind. Plus I'm not checking if any of my dependencies need help every day. I took over fsnotify after it was archived because I just didn't know they needed help. Last guy spent about 5 years looking for someone to take it over. I wouldn't have minded doing it before, but ... you do need to know about it.
  - Cupprum 3y ago
    How much time do you spend working on fsnotify if i may ask.
    - arp242 3y ago
      I spent quite a bit of time on it last year, a few weeks of full-time work or so, but haven't spent anything on it for quite a while. There's a bunch of things I'd like to do so I'll probably spend another burst of effort in the future. It's kind of an annoying project to work on because everything is platform-dependent (and at times fickle) so you can't "just" run "go test ./..." but really do need to test it on all platforms. BSD and illumos aren't too much trouble, macOS is already rather painful (slow), and the experience of running Windows is not something I'm able to describe using only polite terms.
      - Cupprum 3y ago
        Have you tried executing the tests in github actions where the tests would run on different Operating Systems?
        arp242 3y ago
        There's an extensive CI setup, but it takes forever to run. And even if it was fast, it would still be a frustratingly slow feedback loop while developing.
- pdimitar 3y ago