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   Jean-Sébastien Guay (skylark13@mastodon.gamedev.place)'s status on Monday, 23-Dec-2024 03:22:42 JST Jean-Sébastien Guay

   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?

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     Tim (Wadhwa-)Brown :donor: (timb_machine@infosec.exchange)'s status on Monday, 23-Dec-2024 03:22:40 JST Tim (Wadhwa-)Brown :donor:

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     @skylark13 Hit the fork button and move on.

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     stigatle (stigatle@activitypub.stigatle.no)'s status on Monday, 23-Dec-2024 03:25:33 JST stigatle

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     • Tim (Wadhwa-)Brown :donor:
     II'd fork it - fix what ever I need, then send a pull request.
     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
     
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     Jean-Sébastien Guay (skylark13@mastodon.gamedev.place)'s status on Monday, 23-Dec-2024 03:25:34 JST Jean-Sébastien Guay

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     • Tim (Wadhwa-)Brown :donor:

     @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.