Skip to content
New issue

Have a question about this project? Sign up for a free GitHub account to open an issue and contact its maintainers and the community.

By clicking “Sign up for GitHub”, you agree to our terms of service and privacy statement. We’ll occasionally send you account related emails.

Already on GitHub? Sign in to your account

It's probably better to use sindresorhus/active-win #25

Open
tiangolo opened this issue Sep 2, 2017 · 3 comments
Open

It's probably better to use sindresorhus/active-win #25

tiangolo opened this issue Sep 2, 2017 · 3 comments

Comments

@tiangolo
Copy link

tiangolo commented Sep 2, 2017

As this project seems abandoned, this is just a heads up for new users.

There are several old Pull Requests here that haven't even been reviewed (a couple of them are mine).

https://github.com/sindresorhus/active-win might be a quite better bet now.

It supports macOS, Linux and Windows. And it has several advantages (apart from being currently maintained). For example, it supports being used with Electron (this project would generate issues in several cases).

Disclaimer: I fixed the Linux implementation and added support for Windows.

@robsonvn
Copy link
Collaborator

Despite the fact I'm a maintainer of this library, I'm not working with this anymore. Maybe is a good time to @octalmage transfer the project to an engaged person who wants to continue this project.

I'm calling all devs who have sent a PR to this project to discuss this situation.
@tiangolo @bushev @tarvainen @tallpants @EnKrypt @shingotakagi @matthewjumpsoffbuildings @tiangolo @Hughp135 @Bradshaw

@tiangolo
Copy link
Author

Thanks @robsonvn for the initiative.

I'm not willing to maintain the project as active-win is a better fit for my purposes. I don't know of any advantage of this project compared to that one as of now (at some point active-win only worked for Mac, but it now supports Windows and Linux too).

Actually, as a disclaimer, I'm one of the "maintainers" there (although I haven't done much lately).


I would suggest adding a "similar projects" section at the end of the README and adding a link to active-win and any other similar project you see fit.


Also, if there is no new maintainer, as a new user coming to the project, I would like to see a notice at the top explaining that the project is not maintained.

@Bradshaw
Copy link

Hi, I literally just sent a couple PRs that fixed some issues I was having with the project, and I wouldn't mind taking on more responsibilities with regards to a small module like active-window and active-win

I'm not particularly experienced in maintaining and participating in FOSS projects, but it's something I've been thinking about getting into

I agree with @tiangolo, adding "similar projects" seems useful

Sign up for free to join this conversation on GitHub. Already have an account? Sign in to comment
Labels
None yet
Projects
None yet
Development

No branches or pull requests

3 participants