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techninja / cncserver

A RESTful API server for driving serial based CNC devices
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Project status? #135

Closed dtgreene closed 1 year ago

dtgreene commented 1 year ago

Hi, I noticed the project has not been updated in some time and doesn't seem to install with newer versions of npm. I tried using Node v18 and npm v8 and kept getting post-install build errors due to the serialport dependency. I eventually made a clone of the repo and updated the dependencies to work with Node 18 and was wondering if a pull request would be welcome. I understand it'd have to be on a fork and I could split it up into smaller sections but wanted to see if the project was still active and accepting PRs.

oskay commented 1 year ago

@techninja Any thoughts?

techninja commented 1 year ago

I haven't been able to touch a single personal project in years, and I would imagine that will stay for a few years more. Maybe one weekend I will find time to post an update but this will do for now:

This project is functionally abandoned unless someone in the community wants to help take over issue management. I put too much work into trying to fix all the problems and make new features for v3 back in 2019-2021 before the twins were born, trying hard to get the v3 release out before that, but they showed up nearly three months early and I haven't been able to make time since. Worse, i've been unable to support or manage anything, and now with twins my time is all but fully spent on just living.

I would be so happy to see this project continue in some way, but I simply can't give it time right now. If anyone wants to be added to a team and help fix some things and get a walkthrough of the project and its intents I would be very happy to do so, the fact that this just languishes here saddens me to no end even though it has some good ideas about things. 😄

dtgreene commented 1 year ago

I'm certainly available to help if help is needed. I spent the afternoon just getting all of the dependencies up to date and if there's a backlog of issues, I'd be more than willing to contribute.

techninja commented 1 year ago

@dtgreene email me at james@tn42.com and let's figure this out 😄

techninja commented 1 year ago

For the community: @dtgreene has joined the team and will be managing the project for the foreseeable future! Check the status for the 2.9.0 maintenance release here