Is this project abandoned?

[Revertron]

Describe the bug

I am frustrated because of no new commits more that half year.

To Reproduce

1. Install it on your server
2. Configure some checks
3. See how many bugs there are
4. Go to github in a hope of update or some activity
5. Become frustrated.

Expected behavior

It will be good to get some updates and fixes from time to time.

[WindowsXP2]

I've been wondering the same thing too. The other day I noticed that their Docker images haven't been updated in 7 months, and when I checked the GitHub just now, the last commit was back in April. I even checked the developers GitHub profile and found that their last commit to their public repositories was back in April. It's a shame that the developer has seemingly abandoned this project because I really liked Statping. I really hope the someone pickups this project and fixes all of the bugs. Ironically the main problem that I have with Statping is that it keeps crashing in Synology Docker.

[adamboutcher]

If the project is abandoned then could we transfer ownership to someone active?

[WindowsXP2]

I think that's something that the developer has to do, but I could be wrong. Worst case scenario someone could always just fork the project.

[jemand771]

@hunterlong seems to have been active on twitter/reddit during the last month, so at least he's (probably) still alive. Phew. Maybe ask him about the project on a different platform (his website also lists an email address), but try to be slightly more polite than @Revertron when they wrote this issue :b

[adamboutcher]

Even if they can add a few others to help manage the project if @hunterlong still wants to retain ownership.

[dokbua]

There's a link to a slack page at the bottom of this list: https://slack.statping.com/
There's also a website https://statping.com/ where someone, presumably @hunterlong is offering it both as a OSS and a paid SAAS service. Good idea, but of course it needs to be refined a bit first. Also, it mentions a free app, but when I checked the app is actually paid. Only a few bucks, and I'd be happy to pay for it if it worked. It's certainly a pity if it's abandoned, it's a project with a lot of potential.

[adamboutcher]

I've emailed hunter.

The app is free on android with an in-app purchase for extra features.

[dokbua]

The free version doesn't provide notification so not very useful ;)

[adamboutcher]

@adamboutcher any response from @hunterlong on the future of this project?

Not yet but it's only been 5 days, let's be patient...

[Saibamen]

Alternatives:

https://github.com/louislam/uptime-kuma
https://github.com/phpservermon/phpservermon

[dokbua]

Alternatives:

https://github.com/louislam/uptime-kuma

Is NICE!

[adamboutcher]

Has anyone here manged a project of this scale? I'm considering forking and setting up infrastructure for a forked version but I haven't got the time to fully manage it, nor am I a software developer. Ideas? Input?

[jemand771]

@adamboutcher I'd be happy to participate but I don't know go at all. We'd definitely need someone who actually understands the code ^^
I could help with github actions, docker and general thinks like managing issues (as far as I can without go knowledge)

[WindowsXP2]

Can you guys let me know if you're going to fork it? I'm not a developer, but I'd happily use your fork.

[adamboutcher]

I'll try and figure out the infrastructure and setup first, I'll post the project fork here.

If I'm going to do it, I want to be able to do an entire drop in replacement to statping including containers etc.

[jemand771]

this fork seems somewhat active but is missing a lot of upstream changes (don't know if that's a good thing or not considering how buggy the current version seems to be)
https://github.com/torusresearch/statping
maybe we should also look for an active fork first before trying to start "the best"

i don't think there's a lof of infrastructure needed to get started. should be as simple as editing the image names in the github workflows and maybe push some old tags manually. (as I've said, I don't know go, but I know gha and docker enough to do that ^^)

edit: alternatively, we could also consider rewriting/creating an entirely different project, unrelated to statping. I understand that statping already has a lot of functionality and a lot of effort has gone into it, however I can't really contribute any actual code here. I've been thinking about creating my own status page project in python anyway, but I don't know how far I'd get. If anyone is interested in starting something, @ me :)
(this issue is getting somewhat off-topic anyway, so let's just embrace the chaos)

[Saibamen]

@jemand771: https://github.com/louislam/uptime-kuma is written in JavaScript (Vue 3) and SCSS

[adamboutcher]

So I've forked to here - https://github.com/statping-ng/statping-ng, I've also copied the wiki over. I'm slowly working through the documentation to change the name to statping-ng. My next step once the rename is done, is to start a build process.

If anyone has experience and would like to join the management of this, then please come and join in.

If @hunterlong eventually picks this project back up then we can look at upstreaming any development.

[jemand771]

@adamboutcher Looks like your fork still has issues disabled - can you enable them in your repo settings so we can continue any discussion about statping-ng there?
(maybe github's discussions feature could also be useful)

[adamboutcher]

@jemand771 issues are now enabled, its now at https://github.com/statping-ng/statping-ng.

We could continue any discussions here - statping-ng#2

[github-actions]

This issue hasn't had any updates in a while. If this is still a problem, please create a new issue.

[adamboutcher]

See here https://github.com/statping-ng/statping-ng.

[enpaul]

@adamboutcher Thank you so much for keeping this project alive! It might be worth pinning this issue on this repository so that newcomers can be redirected to the new project

[jemand771]

we can't pin this issue in this repository as it's not ours - that's the whole reason statping-ng exists as a seperate fork
(the current maintainer of this repo doesn't seem to check his notifications very often)

[em-winterschon]

Statping is broken AF. I setup it up according to instructions, setup a new MySQL schema, added all of my services, setup and validated Slack webhook notifications, setup a Pushover account, started using it. Then it crashes. White page with no logs. Restart the systemd service, am now greeted with a Statping setup page and EVERYTHING IS GONE. Restoring from a database backup doesn't get the site working again.

WASTE OF TIME. AVOID THIS ONE! It was good in 2020 and now it's literally a waste of time.

[adamboutcher]

Statping is broken AF. I setup it up according to instructions, setup a new MySQL schema, added all of my services, setup and validated Slack webhook notifications, setup a Pushover account, started using it. Then it crashes. White page with no logs. Restart the systemd service, am now greeted with a Statping setup page and EVERYTHING IS GONE. Restoring from a database backup doesn't get the site working again.

WASTE OF TIME. AVOID THIS ONE! It was good in 2020 and now it's literally a waste of time.

Try statping-ng however ensure you disable cdn as there's currently an issue with the cdn files.

[github-actions]

This issue hasn't had any updates in a while. If this is still a problem, please create a new issue.

[Revertron]

This issue hasn't had any updates in a while. If this is still a problem, please create a new issue.

Github bot is working! :)

[adamboutcher]

Check out statping-ng/statping-ng

[github-actions]

This issue hasn't had any updates in a while. If this is still a problem, please create a new issue.

[Revertron]

I've moved to Uptime-Kuma, it has some interesting features and works flawlessly.