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Anyone have suggestions as to what can be done when a github project seems totally inactive? I posted PRs on two projects I find useful and it's been over a month without a response. I don't really want to fork them, but this annoys me... I could email the maintainers I guess.
If you're not going to be maintaining a project (and both were previously active with multiple releases) please put a note at the top of README.md or post a call for new maintainers in your project's Issues or something?
@skylark13 Hit the fork button and move on.
@timb_machine Really... What if there a community around the project, what are the consequences? Should I change the name, what if the original author comes back, maybe I'm overthinking this huh... It seems so simple to just fork it and do whatevs.
Then just use the fork until it's merged or just continue to use the fork if they do not merge it.
CC: @timb_machine@infosec.exchange
@skylark13 As someone who has been on both sides, the only bits that frustrated me as an originator were when people don't make contact and simply carried my ideas off into the sunset, in one case taking the name with them (initially, we connected and fixed).
As a forker. I've had people both accept commits and not, neither of which upset me. Contact is an opportunity to understand what both sides want and find an agreeable path. Even when we forked Nessus as OpenVAS, discussions with Tenable (instigated by them, I was young and foolish) ended up being beneficial and led to more cordial long term relations.
A fork and PRs is an efficient way to start that process, especially if you're both on a platform like GitHub/GitLab or similar etc...
@timb_machine Thanks, that helps!