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A React framework for building text editors.
https://draftjs.org/
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Update overall project status in README #3136

Closed thegreatercurve closed 2 years ago

thegreatercurve commented 2 years ago

Draft.js has been internally unmaintained at Meta for a while. Instead, we've been building and migrating to our replacement text editing framework, Lexical.

This PR marks Draft.js as unmaintained for external users.

facebook-github-bot commented 2 years ago

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lifeisfoo commented 2 years ago

Fixes https://github.com/facebook/draft-js/issues/3130 https://github.com/facebook/draft-js/issues/2340 https://github.com/facebook/draft-js/issues/3091

AndyGCook commented 2 years ago

Earnest question @thegreatercurve and Meta: Why archive the entire repository vs. turning it over to the community for on-going maintenance and development? I understand Meta is moving on, but there's still a lot of projects/companies that use Draft and I'm sure there's support from the open-source community to continue on with it.

AndyGCook commented 2 years ago

Sorry, one more question... What is going to happen to https://draftjs.org? Will the docs stay up for the foreseeable future or is that going to be deprecated as well?

thegreatercurve commented 2 years ago

Earnest question @thegreatercurve and Meta: Why archive the entire repository vs. turning it over to the community for on-going maintenance and development? I understand Meta is moving on, but there's still a lot of projects/companies that use Draft and I'm sure there's support from the open-source community to continue on with it.

@AndyGCook Good question! Archiving doesn’t mean deletion, and the community is always welcome to fork the repo to continue maintenance and development.

In regard to transferring ownership of the repo, we’ve been hesitant to give the keys to any random person, as it still receives a lot of downloads, and could therefore pose a real security risk.

However, if an open-source foundation or an external group with a decent OSS governance model want to take ownership, that is something we would definitely consider.

Sorry, one more question... What is going to happen to https://draftjs.org/? Will the docs stay up for the foreseeable future or is that going to be deprecated as well?

We've not got any immediate plans to remove the site, at least until the repo is archived. If we do, the site and all of the developer docs are still available in this repo as markdown.

AndyGCook commented 2 years ago

@thegreatercurve Thanks for the prompt reply! I hope you don't mind that I sent you an email just now (or at least... I think I did based off guessing your email address)

I chatted with my team from Tettra and we'd like to toss our hat in the ring to take over this repository as the new on-going maintainers if possible. I included some context about my personal background to come across less as a "random person" and would be happy to chat more if you're up for it.

If you don't see the message from me in your inbox and are open to connecting, my email is andy (at) tettra (dot) co

thegreatercurve commented 2 years ago

Hey @AndyGCook! I didn't get an email, but let me message you, and I'll pass on your details.