Over the past 8 months or so, material-table has been less than responsive. material-table appears to be slowly going away (nobody seems to be maintaining it anymore) and I was tired of spending my own time submitting PR's with no response. I have also seen others express concern about this.
I even asked to help them out but was ignored, thus this fork was born.
My intent is not to rip off material-table. I do not plan on making any dramatic changes to the codebase.
Recently, I have been very active in assisting with issues, most of the solutions to these issues are hacky and could be easily resolved within the codebase. Occassionally, the solution is as simple as updating/improving the docs.
My main goals include chipping away at the 746 open issues and 69 open pull requests, update documentation, and make minor improvements that help us all.
I want to keep things as close to they are now so that if the author of material-table, Mehmet Baran, ever wants to merge this code, we could easily do that. I would gladly provide ownership of the npm organization, @material-table, to him if he ever wanted to publish packages using this name.