* Hazen Babcock via Plplot-devel <plplot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net> [2024-09-21 01:11]:
I'm still waiting for Alan (Irwin) to chime in, but this is looking less and less likely as time goes by.
The last commit by Alan was done in July 2021. Its last post in plplot-devel was done in February 2023. After that, he vanished without sending a retirement message. I hope he is doing well.
Alan was the de-facto leader of the project for over two decades.
I still have admin on this project on Sourceforge and can add / remove developers and / or admins if anyone is really interested in taking over the project. I probably won't be much help beyond that, I just now tried to run the tests for this project and realized that I don't even remember how to do this or where this is documented.
The tests are automatically run when the Debian package for PLplot is built, see: https://salsa.debian.org/science-team/plplot/-/tree/master/debian/tests?ref_type=heads
This is how I discover new bugs in PLplot, from time to time, when languages evolve.
Also, some of the open merge requests seem to be prior to when Alan vanished, so it might be worth figuring out why he did not accept them before merging them.
Another question: does anyone know who is behind the domain name plplot.org? In the who.is database, the registrant, administrative, and technical contact information appears as “REDACTED FOR PRIVACY”: https://who.is/whois/plplot.org
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