Is this project abandoned?

[phamquiluan]

No description provided.

[jspaezp]

I think the author has not been active for a while in general.

I am not sure if someone would be willing to maintain it in the future (if so, I had luck emailing him a while ago).
TBH I do not feel 100% comfortable with my understanding of the code base to take it on but would gladly help someone else who gets ownership transfered/added as editor.

[phamquiluan]

@jspaezp I don't know if Covid-19 affects the authors 😭

[rubenamtz-msft]

This is sad. @jspaezp What did the author say? Would be cool to email them and ask if they are coming back.

[rubenamtz-msft]

Ok, so found his linkedin profile page https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexander-jung-085448140/?originalSubdomain=ch, basically he stopped working on it, rn he is a ML SWE at Apple.

[jspaezp]

@rubenamtz-msft has not replied. So I have to assume it is abandoned ...

[moi90]

It would be great, if the project could then be transferred to a group of people who is willing to (at least) merge bug fix pull requests. It is a great library!

[aleju]

Hi guys, sorry for being dead for so long. There was an endless string of other things that had higher priority (e.g. interview prep, relocation between countries, tons of work at a new job, ...). Sadly, my new position doesn't allow me to work on open source software due to possible conflicts of interest. 😢 Even bugfixes require an explicit approval, so my hands are tied. Not that I had the time anyways, but that's a different story. I could give somebody else the necessary permissions to improve on the library, though I do remember that maintaining it was a lot of work.

[maltempi]

Hi @aleju , I totally understand your point, and btw, just a few people would be engaged to really maintain an OSS. However, there are some important updates we would need to merge to the main branch, for example, imgaug is not working with the latest numpy version.

I tested this PR (#840) and I'm sure it is working well. If you give me permission to merge code into the main branch, I could do that, and maybe participate in the decisions of merging punctual other hotfixes and other libraries depreciation.