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nathanl / authority

*CURRENTLY UNMAINTAINED*. Authority helps you authorize actions in your Rails app. It's ORM-neutral and has very little fancy syntax; just group your models under one or more Authorizer classes and write plain Ruby methods on them.
MIT License
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Add fork #124

Closed tuliren closed 6 years ago

tuliren commented 6 years ago

Thank you for creating this excellent gem. I'd like to keep working on it and add my fork to README.

christhekeele commented 6 years ago

Hey @tuliren!

I'm one of the maintainers of authority. We convened a while back and realized none of us had the ability to continue actively contributing to the project. Acknowledging this lack of progress and leadership, we shuttered it.

The goal of inviting forks is to give our current users a place to look for active development and ownership that we cannot provide. We don't have a strict criteria for what constitutes a candidate fork, but as @nathanl mentions, we are hoping for contributors to the project to step forth and help keep it alive without necessarily transferring ownership, to allow our users to explore alternatives without asking them to trust us to vet those variants.

However, citing alternate forks within the README is itself a form of expressing trust in them. At the very least we hope to see active development in these forks before advertising their existence: there are currently 19 contributors to authority and 56 forks, including your own, but none of these are meaningfully active; which is the only criteria we are looking for to indicate successor projects to our active users. We still receive almost 100 downloads a day for the current version alone and would hate to endorse ownership not capable of inheriting the needs of these users.

I'm delighted that you are interested in keeping authority alive and I look forward to monitoring your progress; however, I hope that you understand that we'd like to see some evidence of vitality and activity within your repository before directing others to it over the 55 other inactive forks. Please reach out to me if you could benefit from some assistance in working on it, and feel free to re-open this issue if you feel your fork is ready to offer the benefits of active development to our users that we cannot provide.

Thanks again, Chris K

tuliren commented 6 years ago

Thank you for the detailed explanation! Sorry that I should not have created this pull request until I have some concrete progresses.

christhekeele commented 6 years ago

No, thank you for your interest in contributing! I'm excited to have you in our community, sleepy though it be.