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Increase field name length from 8 to 10 characters. #33

Closed ShaunKarran closed 1 year ago

ShaunKarran commented 5 years ago

Shapefile specifies a maximum field name length of 10 characters.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shapefile#Data_storage

sheindel commented 2 years ago

Why isn't this merged in? I'm amazed that I'm stumbling on this bug in 2022, we had a fix in 2019, and it never got merged? Did everybody just move away from this library, or is there a preferred fork?

davidbeers commented 2 years ago

Sigh... @sheindel they've been looking for new maintainers for this repo since 2017.

sheindel commented 2 years ago

@tmcw these should be easy issues to merge in, or hand the reigns of this library over to new maintainers. We're not asking for complex refactors here

sheindel commented 2 years ago

@davidtheclark both @armaniAllie93 @lordrip have requested to maintain, any traction on getting new maintainers?

tmcw commented 2 years ago

Yeahh, so, I worked at Mapbox, and no longer do, and neither does David, don't have commit access to this repo. I can't hand the reins to anyone or merge your changes, so don't hassle me to do either. If I were you, I'd maintain a fork.

sheindel commented 2 years ago

@tmcw thank you for the additional information, that's more info than I had before. Apologies for pestering, just looking to make traction on this. Tired of maintaining forks of simple things that should be easy enough to update. I'll see if anybody still at mapbox can help, open to suggestions. Thanks

tmcw commented 2 years ago

It's going to be a little annoying for fellow alumni if you @ mention folks who worked on projects five years ago and aren't there anymore, so try to at least not spam anyone's notifications. And again, if history is any indication, nobody is swooping in to adopt this project and merge PRs on the Mapbox side. The best way to get this done is to take charge and maintain a fork.

sheindel commented 2 years ago

My apologies, but in my defense, neither you nor mapbox responded with any of this information to any other PRs or issues in the last 7 years, and the only possible hint was David's issue about looking for maintainers, so at least our conversation completes the historical record for others coming looking for answers.

Regardless of the outcome, your time and responses are much appreciated.