Release cadence?

[berkus]

I see latest pathfinder version was released 1,5 years ago. I believe there are some changes and fixes accumulated since then. What are the roadmap and release plans for this project?

[jdm]

Nobody is actively working on this project as far as I know.

[berkus]

Any specific reason for that?

Is this project obsoleted by something? Or just abandoned? Does it look for maintainers?

I basically need one thing - the simd fix released so that it's dependee, servo/font-kit would work on Apple M1 hardware.

[jdm]

The main developer is no longer being paid to work on it. @pcwalton Would you mind adding the cargo-publish team to the appropriate pathfinder crates on crates.io?

[pcwalton]

I'm not sure what that means exactly...

[jdm]

https://doc.rust-lang.org/cargo/reference/publishing.html#cargo-owner

[jdm]

You can see an example of a crate with that group as an owner at https://crates.io/crates/smallvec.

[zimond]

Could we update the crates.io version to a recent commit?

[berkus]

@jdm I believe you have enough folks to handle this if @pcwalton is willing to extend publishing rights to that team.

However, if you need any help with the maintenance, I can lend a hand. Maybe even two.

[jdm]

@pcwalton Could you finish adding the cargo-publish team to the pathfinder crates so I can publish a new version of pathfinder_simd? It should just require cargo owner --add github:servo:cargo-publish for each crate.

[berkus]

@pcwalton pretty please? M1 Macs are getting obsoleted soon.

[pcwalton]

Done.

[jdm]

I have published a new version of pathfinder_simd. Thanks!

[berkus]

🕺🏼 thank you all!