Status of project?

[hterik]

Just a friendly check, if there is still anyone here maintaining this project or if anyone knows more about the project status.

• Last commit to project was almost 2 years ago.
• There are issues without any response for a year and some open oneliner-PRs that should be easy to take in and that have been open for 6 months+, for example Python 3.10 support: tests + wheel building #35, that now makes python version upgrades more difficult if you are not building native modules yourself.
• Hajime, the project owner, has not had any Github activity at all for over one year.
• I sent an email to Hajime asking about the future plans, one week ago, and have not received any response. (Please others, let that email and this issue be the only channel of such reminders to avoid nagging the owner.)

While the code itself could be considered "done", the wish for prebuilt wheels will continue.
What is the recommended way forward for users mmh3? Build your own wheels? Alternative modules? Alternative distributions?

Does anyone know more?

[hajimes]

I sincerely apologize for causing inconvenience to users with poor maintenance. As version 3.1.0 is now released, I hope the new version would help troubled users.

For alternatives when this project is not active, I think https://github.com/ifduyue/python-xxhash is also a nice non-cryptographic hash library, so users might try that one (unless mmh3 hash compatibility is required; e.g., for calculating Shodan favicon hashes).