Maintenance status of cyipopt

mechmotum / cyipopt

Cython interface for the interior point optimzer IPOPT

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Maintenance status of cyipopt #218

Closed chrhansk closed 1 year ago

chrhansk commented 1 year ago

I am using cyipopt quite regularly in my own projects and I am a little worried regarding its maintenance status:

Several pull requests have been made with no signs of them being merged
Issues are similarly not being addressed, even if they are fairly critical (#217, #211)
It is unclear who feels responsible for any maintenance, @moorepants sometimes comments, but does not seem to take actions (?)

Please understand that I do not want to criticize the volunteers who made this package available. I would just like to avoid the situation of a package I am using a lot becoming stale and difficult or impossible to use. Do you need any help with maintaining the package (I would be happy to step in)?

moorepants commented 1 year ago

I and others maintain the package. If it is too slow for you, you are welcome to help. I am happy to give commit rights to people that have made significant contributions to the package and follow our development practices.

I don't see anything that is critical, as you mention. I will happily accept a pull request to update for building with Cython 3, but for now you can simply pin to less than 3 when building.

pip install will not work until someone distributes wheels of ipopt that we can link against. You have to follow the build instructions in the documentation to install cyipopt.

chrhansk commented 1 year ago

Well, I must admit that I am trying to scratch my own itch. pip install does not work on my Linux system either, though this seems to have been fixed in the current version, so having a release with the current state and the fix for my pet peeves (https://github.com/mechmotum/cyipopt/pull/216) merged would go a long way in my opinion.

As for the maintenance, I get that we work on projects in our off-time, so I of course don't expect any customer service here. I also understand that in this case you do not want to bestow commit access to people who have not contributed much yet. On the other hand, contributing seems a little difficult for me if I get no feedback on my pull requests (if you think I made a mistake or if other improvements are needed, please tell me so).

moorepants commented 1 year ago

pip install does not work on my Linux system either

Cython (a build dependency) will likely have to be pinned <3 if you are installing the last release. If it isn't that, then please open an issue about it.

contributing seems a little difficult for me if I get no feedback on my pull requests

You submitted a PR in late July. The month of August is holidays where I live and I'm busy with the start of the school year in my job in September, so please be patient. Some things take months.

so having a release with the current state

I hope to make a new release by the end of the year.

I'm closing this issue, please reopen if it isn't addressed.

chrhansk commented 1 year ago

Thanks for the consideration, hope you had nice holidays.