Package is discontinued until Mastodon provides an OpenAPI spec

[lukepighetti]

After some internal discussions we decided that we are no longer willing to support mastodon_dart. The reason is because keeping up with the Mastodon API is too much work without them having an official OpenAPI spec. If the Mastodon team decides to make an OpenAPI spec available we will reconsider supporting mastodon_dart.

Related: mastodon/mastodon#1404

[maks]

I'm planning on using this for some Mastodon projects in Dart/Flutter.

@lukepighetti given this issue and Mastodon devs show no signs of wanting to use OPenAPI, would you like to hand over maintainership of this repo/pkg or should I just kick off my own fork?

[maks]

@lukepighetti reply (for some reason he couldnt comment here):

Thats fair enough. My notoriously short attention span may mean I don't get far with it either. but my personal view is that Twitter is now in a terminal decline and I intend to move over to Mastodon as much as possible, so I want to make a few "comfort features" for myself there and of course do it using Dart. \

From what I can tell, Mastodons dev pace of its API doesn't seem very fast and with the recent huge influx of new users I suspect it will get even slower so I'm happy to have a go.

It would be preferable if you would be willing to unarchive the pkg but otherwise I'm happy to fork it, I just find that having a long established pub pkg is less confusing for people. Hopefully you can comment again here but if not I'm @mklin@mastodon.social

[GroovinChip]

@lukepighetti reply (for some reason he couldnt comment here):

Thats fair enough. My notoriously short attention span may mean I don't get far with it either. but my personal view is that Twitter is now in a terminal decline and I intend to move over to Mastodon as much as possible, so I want to make a few "comfort features" for myself there and of course do it using Dart. \

From what I can tell, Mastodons dev pace of its API doesn't seem very fast and with the recent huge influx of new users I suspect it will get even slower so I'm happy to have a go.

It would be preferable if you would be willing to unarchive the pkg but otherwise I'm happy to fork it, I just find that having a long established pub pkg is less confusing for people. Hopefully you can comment again here but if not I'm @mklin@mastodon.social

My take is that you should fork, and if you find that you are regularly working on it for about 3 months, open a PR back to us and we'll consider unarchiving so you can regularly contribute. @lukepighetti thoughts?

[lukepighetti]

That seems fine. To summarize, please feel free to fork and if you end up with contributions feel free to open PRs. We can take it from there.

[maks]

It seems that @jtmuller5 is already off and running with the ball in his fork: https://github.com/jtmuller5/mastodon_dart

@jtmuller5 will you be submitting a PR to this repo with your updates?

[jtmuller5]

Hi @maks! I'm definitely open to submitting a PR. I can probably get it in tomorrow afternoon

[lukepighetti]

@jtmuller5 we have a null safety branch here: #40

[jtmuller5]

I should have looked a bit harder for an existing null safety branch 😅. If I make any other changes I'll submit them to that branch. Thanks!

[lukepighetti]

mastodon_dart is no longer discontinued on pub.dev