Fix build, get suite passing, Fix spacer component on Outlook and Windows Mail clients

[LilyReile]

104 I've tested on Litmus and removing the unit fixes the spacer component on Windows clients and doesn't regress others.

[marcandre]

Looks good to me

[LilyReile]

Anything I can do to help this along? I see the latest commit is from 2017. We're willing to help maintain this project because it's very useful to us at Zaarly.

[SampsonCrowley]

seriously is this repo abandoned now?

[marcandre]

Hopefully there will be some activity soon...

[SampsonCrowley]

@marcandre @DylanReile I reached out to zurb directly and received this response:

Hi Sampson,

Thanks for reaching out! We're still using Foundation for Emails internally here. There are no plans for us to continue developing it. We are looking for community members to step up and essentially take it over.

Cheers!

Rafi

On Tue, May 21, 2019 at 04:48 PM, "Sampson Crowley" *@gmail.com wrote:

Me and some of my fellow developers have put a LOT of time into implementing foundation for emails in our various projects. Both the FfE repo and the related Inky repo have failed to return ANY response to pull requests, issues or questions on if the repo is abandoned.

Please let us know if you are abandoning Foundation for Emails, so we can remove your code from our apps as necessary

[marcandre]

Right, I also contacted kball even though he's no longer there and was hoping to hear back today.

Not too sure what's best at this point, create a new org and move the repos there, or have Zurb provide access to the existing repos.

Note that I'm just trying to help but I am not using inky personally or through a client.

[SampsonCrowley]

It almost seems like we should pick a maintainer at this point, and just make their fork the new base. the claim from rafi they are "looking for community members" is almost laughable, as there have been plenty of offers here that haven't gotten a response

[marcandre]

Propose yourself :-)

[SampsonCrowley]

I did, they just got back to me, so at least getting somewhere

[SampsonCrowley]

Meeting w/ Zurb CEO tomorrow to discuss

[LilyReile]

@SampsonCrowley Any news?

[SampsonCrowley]

@DylanReile they just stopped responding completely. Apparently they just don't care enough about the users of this library. I'm tired of zurb being in control of this repo when they refuse to maintain it. I vote we fork it and consider someone else as the new base

[rafibomb]

I TOTALLY get the frustration. I still use Inky along with you all so I also want to see it live on.

ZURB can no longer maintain this project. It has been moved to a new Foundation organization separate from ZURB.

I'm pretty sure the Yetinauts, who are maintaining all of Foundation would be open to new contributors. I'll loop Joe Workman in to make a plan to open this up to new people.

[joeworkman]

I will get together with @rafibomb next week in order to get our ducks in a row so that we can get a release out.

[AxelTheGerman]

@joeworkman any news on this? I have looked around quite some time for something to make writing emails easier. This is the only thing that came up but I don't like investing in projects without any sort of activity and/or responsiveness

edit: looks like https://github.com/foundation/foundation-emails is still very much alive and kicking but inky apparently not

[joeworkman]

Man, time just flies when you are having fun (in the case of quarantine, not so much fun). I have yet to get an official release of Inky under my belt yet. I will see what I can do to learn what I can this week.

[marcandre]

Did you finally get push access?

[joeworkman]

I can push to this repo. I am awaiting access to publish to NPM and RubyGems now.

I am working on getting the dependencies updated. Hopefully by the time that is done, I will have the access.

[joeworkman]

Give today's release a shot. https://github.com/foundation/inky/releases/tag/v1.4.1

[joeworkman]

I have not pushed it up to npm yet. still waiting on access, should be tomorrow.