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java-decompiler / jd-gui

A standalone Java Decompiler GUI
GNU General Public License v3.0
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Is this project active yet? #375

Open b0123456789 opened 3 years ago

AdminHcat commented 2 years ago

I don't think it's active

maobaolong commented 2 years ago

what a pity

emmanue1 commented 2 years ago

Not really active: I have little time to support this project.

rgov commented 11 months ago

@emmanue1 JD remains among the pantheon of the great reversing engineering tools. Unfortunately, it is starting to suffer from bitrot—for example it requires patches to launch on macOS these days. But there is still a community here who are motivated to keep your awesome program alive, see the 20+ pull requests waiting and over 2000(!) forks.

Felix Geisendörfer's blog post, The Pull Request Hack, makes the case for expanding commit access to contributors when your motivation to maintain a project wanes:

Somebody sent a pull request for a project I was no longer using myself ... However, since I no longer cared about the project, and the person sending the pull request did, I simply added him as a collaborator and said something like this: “I don’t have time to maintain this project anymore, so I gave you commit access to make any changes you’d like. It would be nice to follow the style used by the rest of the code and add some tests to this patch.”.

The result was pure magic. Within a few hours the same person who had just submitted a rather mediocre patch, had now fixed things up and committed them. This was highly unusual, so I started using the same strategy for a few other small projects I was no longer interested in maintaining. And it worked, over and over again.

If you no longer have the time to support the project, please consider inviting other users to continue its development. Thank you!