Re: [paho-dev] Is paho.mqtt.python actively maintained?

[Philip Couling <couling@xxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks Greg

>Are there serious open issues?  Does it fail to work with Python 3.11?
> Something can be maintained in a sense while not having changes, if
> there is no reason to have changes.

What's concerning is that there's 224 open issues on Github and 26 PRs; on the face of it there's plenty of reasons for changes, a few of them would be useful for me. It seems a mighty long time for some of these to remain open with no response, not even to reject and close them. I really appreciate that open source projects are often maintained in people's spare time, I don't wish to seem ungrateful.

On the contrary, I was really wondering about the chance of my own PR(s) being accepted if I submit.  A couple of week's worth of evenings would be a big waste to spend on a PR if nobody's monitoring the queue.

On Tue, 27 Jun 2023 at 13:57, Greg Troxel <gdt@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Philip Couling <couling@xxxxxxxxx> writes:

> Is paho.mqtt.python being actively maintained. The last release was October
> 2021 and I can only see a single commit in the repo after that release on
> github (https://github.com/eclipse/paho.mqtt.python).
>
> I might like to help support this code base. Though I'm not sure if any PRs
> I offer will get ignored through lack of maintenance.

For context, I maintain the pkgsrc package for this, and use it.

Are there serious open issues?  Does it fail to work with Python 3.11?
Something can be maintained in a sense while not having changes, if
there is no reason to have changes.

I can't speak for whoever has write access on the repo, but it seems
obvious that if you have fixed something, that submitting a PR is better
than not submitting a PR.