Further development of RESTinio is on hold for now

[eao197]

Special notes for those who see this issue and are ready to scream "It's abandoned! How can we trust RESTinio if it's not maintained?":

1. The project is not abandoned. We react to issues, answer questions, provide help and make maintenance releases. You can take a look at the Releases section and see releases made since March 2021.
2. We're happy to add new functionality to RESTinio if someone is willing to pay for it. But since there are no such applications, we have to accumulate our own resources. Therefore, further development is on hold. We'll return to adding new features as soon as we have the opportunity.
3. If you expect some guarantees from a free open-source project, ask yourself: who should provide those guarantees if you're not paying for them?

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RESTinio is being developed by our small company stiffstream. Nobody pays us for that, we develop RESTinio using our own funds.

In the past, we got funding by doing custom development and/or maintenance of C/C++ projects by contracts. But the 2020 year was very unsuccessful for us and we didn't get the money we expected to spend for our OpenSource projects in 2021.

So now we have no resources to work on OpenSource projects including RESTinio and have put further development on hold for some time. We're still fixing bugs, reacting to issues, answering questions. So the project is not abandoned. We're waiting for the conditions to resume the evolution of the RESTinio.

If you want to see some new functionality in RESTinio, then consider the possibility of ordering an extension of RESTinio on a paid basis.

You can also help us by spreading info about stiffstream: maybe someone needs the help of experienced C++ developers. The RESTinio project is a good example of our abilities and the quality of our work.

I want to say "Thanks!" to all who selected RESTinio. Your attention to our project and your feedback was one of the main drivers in RESTinio's development.

[vidcentum]

@eao197 , I totally agree with you that open sources projects need to have either direct and indirect support. We will certainly talk about Stiffstream and explore any possibilities/collaboration of getting some paid assignments. Once again, our sincere thanks for building excellent libraries RESTinio and SObjectizer. Hope RESTinio will come back with C++17 implementation. Best Regards Maruthi

[eao197]

@vidcentum Thanks!

[giorgiozoppi]

@eao197 i am starting to look into it. Do you have time to help i need it?

[eao197]

@giorgiozoppi There is always a couple of hours per week to ask questions related to our open-source projects.

[giorgiozoppi]

I would like to maintain this in the near future.

[eao197]

@giorgiozoppi I like to hear this. However, I see the current situation this way:

• if there will be some bug in RESTinio-0.6 we'll have time and resources to fix it;
• we haven't any plans to extend the functionality of RESTinio-0.6;
• our desires are centered on the next major branch 0.7 where we want to change the HTTP/1.1 parser (probably to our own one) and add a possibility to integrate support for HTTP/2 and HTTP/3 in the future. Because those are rather complex tasks and we didn't elaborate on them yet I don't think we can delegate to (or shared with) someone some part of that work.

[giorgiozoppi]

Ok. No problem, i'll fork and just play a bit with what you have.

[ghost]

Will it ever be resumed?

[eao197]

@Majestro000 I hope so, but hardly this year.

Anyway, the project is not dead, and we're still here. We react to open issues. And if someone misses some functionality, then the development of such functionality can be ordered from our company.