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Re: [paho-dev] Is paho.mqtt.python actively maintained?
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Older, stable projects like this often develop inertia, especially
when maintained by volunteers. For months, absolutely nothing
happens, then there's a sudden flood of activity for a few days or
weeks; a new release comes out; then nothing happens for another
year. Sometimes this is triggered by the discovery of a bad bug, new
capabilities of the language or platform, or simply because the
maintainer(s) have a few days off their day jobs to work on some
free stuff.
My suggestion, in general:
- If you think you found a bug, _definitely_ send in a PR, or at
least open an issue to report it.
- If it's a sizable amount of work for some new feature(s), open an
Issue on GitHub to discuss it before doing a lot of work.
- Regardless, if it's something you will definitely use yourself,
then just do it. You're always free to use your own fork.
Frank
On 6/27/23 10:08, Pierre Fersing wrote:
Hi all,
I'm one of the committer on this repository. I'm short on time
to monitor PRs and issues (hence the high number of issues :( ).
But I still watch the mailing list, so if you have any serious
issues or a PR that needs some attention, I'll find some time
for them.
If you want to help supporting this project, you're more than
welcome.
I'll try to find a some time this summer to make a release, it
helps showing that this project is not dead.
Regards,
Pierre
Le 27/06/2023 à 15:32, Philip Couling
a écrit :
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.
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.
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