Deprecate project?

[arthurvr]

Given that the project is down for longer than a month, in private @paulirish and I had a discussion about the future of the project.

We checked the logs, and seems like we don't have that much users...

We both think it's probably time to deprecate this project. Thoughts?

At the end the project was down for more than a month and nobody reported that, which already means the project is kinda dead.

(Cc: @addyosmani @jonathantneal @drublic @nimbupani @AaronLayton @h5bp/owners)

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If we all agree with a deprecation, I'd love to help doing all the necessary stuff: closing down issues, changing readme, ...

[paulirish]

@tagawa what do you think?

FWIW: Logs from October: http://temp.paulirish.com/html/monthly/2014-10/index.html#ref (ignore the pw prompts)

[arthurvr]

@tagawa what do you think?

Sorry for not pinging you in man!

[jodoglevy]

As a user of this project, I'd like to weigh in here.

We use this project on https://thalamusgme.com to determine if our users have the proper browsers to use all our site's features. It has proven very useful, and helpful to us, when it works. We definitley noticed it has been down the past month, but it is not mission critical to our site, does not present as an error to the user when its down, and we figured you guys were aware already and working to fix it, so we did not report it. I was not aware it was down for the entirety of the month, I thought it was an intermittent issue. In the future I can definitely be more proactive about reporting bugs and issues if that would help you see people are using this, but you guys should also probably get some monitoring in place so you can tell if the API is down without customers reporting it.

We have 1,500 users actively using our site in our first year of operation, and expect that to grow a lot in coming years. We want to use the html5please api to support them. Other than downtime, a few bugs, and lack of https support (#79, #8) I find the project very good. I'd love to see it continue forward.

Just my two cents.

[tagawa]

@arthurvr No problem!

@jodoglevy Thanks for the taking the time to comment - it's gratifying to know the project's been of use.

Regarding deprecation I don't have strong feelings either way. Are there any disadvantages to keeping it going other than keeping it up-to-date? I don't do much on it other than occasionally updating the browser versions and I'm happy to continue doing that.