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Robbepop / modular-bitfield

Macro to generate bitfields for structs that allow for modular use of enums.
Apache License 2.0
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Is this crate maintained? #106

Open droundy opened 6 months ago

droundy commented 6 months ago

I'm not seeing a lot of commits, and am wondering whether a co-maintainer would be welcome? Or if new PRs would be accepted?

I understand that after the xz incident you might be wary of accepting a co-maintainer, and maybe the best option would be to fork (or just live with the flaws), but I'm reluctant to do either of those. I'm also not sure that I'm willing to step up as a co-maintainer, just exploring the state of the crate.

Robbepop commented 6 months ago

Hi @droundy and thank you very much for asking.

Best would be someone who can be trusted as a co-maintainer, however, that "becoming trusted" to maintain with a high quality and diversity of use cases in mind is hard to come by. The simplest was to fork this crate and maintain your own fork for a while and eventually take over upstream once proven that the fork is actually better and of higher quality.

I also thought about coming back to this old crate and give it some well deserved love. Problem for me is that it seems a re-write of the macro system is less work to fix all the issues and limitations that have accumulated over the years - not very approachable.