Is Formidable Dead?

[Albert-IV]

Formidable has been a long-standing multipart form parser for Express, and you guys have kept the project going for a long while which is pretty amazing (no, seriously). After running into issues with my current multipart library, I decided to give formidable a try.

It does most everything needed for my use-case, but after looking through the issue tracker, there are some troubling issues I've seen.

The first issue is that it isn't possible to send an array of data to the server. There has been an issue open since 2011 on the subject. The general consensus seems to be that it would be a good thing to add however even with a PR outstanding, hasn't been fixed. (#33, #77, #280, #305 and resulting fix #306)

Names for files have been proven to have issues when used in a clustered enviroment. A PR was submitted that apparently fixes it, however it hasn't been merged. (Admittedly the people bringing it to everyone's attention wasn't the most cordial, but the fix is ready.) (#301, fixes #247)

Express hasn't bundled formidable for form-data since Express moved to version 4, yet the README still references that it is included by default.

So my question, is the project dead? I'm all for the open-source mentality,, but it seems that the project is a little bit dead right now. @andrewrk has a fork that seems pretty active that I will try using, but if the project was dead it would be nice to mention it. :)

[felixge]

I wouldn't call the project dead yet, I'm still happy to merge pull requests. That being said, there have been few contributions recently, so if you're worried about open issues you probably shouldn't expect them to get fixed anytime soon unless you can make the required changes yourself.