Hi! On Sat, Oct 11, 2025 at 06:54:54AM +0000, Lucien Anti-Spam via sigrok-devel wrote: > What if we request to add gatekeepers to the project, and additional > domain/wiki managers?
I'm hoping some maintainers are still around and will provide assistance. Possibly some new contributors could become maintainers over time. I believe we can request tha project authors choose some new maintainers, but the community should not be requesting anybody specific. (one of the maintainers emailed yesterday, I'll reply in the appropriate thread). > I would prefer for clarity it doesn't fork, there's a strong brand/history > and moving it all would lead to confusion. Same here. In my mind, the fork should be the last resort measure. > Did you talk at length with any of the original owners? No. This thread is an attempt at doing that. > Cheers,Luc > On Saturday, October 11, 2025 at 09:18:53 AM GMT+9, Evan Foss > <[email protected]> wrote: > > I hope it continues too. My thanks to the people who carried it this far. > > On Thu, Oct 9, 2025 at 9:41 AM Adrian Godwin <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > I also hope it won't die. I think it's well worth supporting. > > I'm not in a great position to do that myself but will try to do something > > if I can. > > > > I have been watching the project for a while, and think that the original > > developers burnt out (too many demands, not enough encouragement, not > > enough help) and that the reviewing was a major sticking point. I don't > > want to attach any blame there. I don't know whether it was a need for more > > reviewers, a lack of submissions, or what. > > > > Personally I didn't feel up to reviewing to the proper standards. I felt it > > was a project with very good standards and didn't want to compromise that. > > > > I think it could be revived and if we had written requirements for how it > > was to be reviewed I could be convinced to help. I'm not aware of any > > particular split or loss of people, tey just faded out of conversation one > > at a time. I don't know if any could be persuaded to return or even just > > advise on what was most needed. > > > > If we can't easily and with cooperation set up replacements for the > > organisation, I think a good idea might be to fork it. We can acknowledge > > the original work but admit we're a new team and that any failings are not > > due to the original codebase. I would not be happy unless it was clear the > > problems are due to a falling off of community support rather than > > historical failings. > > > > > > On Thu, Oct 9, 2025 at 2:16 PM Ladislav Laska <[email protected]> wrote: > >> > >> Hi all! > >> > >> It's sad that sigrok is not receiving much attention and I understand > >> the original maintainer(s) might not have the time or interest to > >> continue development. However, the project still works great for many > >> use cases and there are a lot of PRs open on github, many of them > >> reasonably new - currently being ignored and authors demotivated. > >> > >> I think the community should offer a helping hand with the project and > >> offer at least some basic support in running the project. Depending on > >> how the original authors want to be involved, I think it would be a good > >> idea to appoint some community maintainers (ideally somebody who > >> contributed in the past) and give them enough privileges to merge PRs > >> and potentially release new versions. Alternatively, people could > >> volunteer to review & test PRs -- I'm up to looking into some, but it is > >> unclear if it would lead to something, since not even some simple ones > >> are being merged for around a year. > >> > >> What is the general sentiment about this? Is there a will to help keep > >> the project running from the community & current maintainers? > >> > >> I hope we won't let the project just die, since it's a crucial piece of > >> opensource software in the embedded engineer's toolbox. > >> > >> Best regards, > >> Ladislav > >> > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> sigrok-devel mailing list > >> [email protected] > >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sigrok-devel > > > > _______________________________________________ > > sigrok-devel mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sigrok-devel > > > _______________________________________________ > sigrok-devel mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sigrok-devel > > _______________________________________________ > sigrok-devel mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sigrok-devel -- S pozdravem Ladislav "Krakonoš" Láska http://www.krakonos.org/ _______________________________________________ sigrok-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sigrok-devel
