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urvin-compliance / caracal

Caracal is a ruby library for dynamically creating professional-quality Microsoft Word documents (.docx).
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Is anyone maintaining this gem any longer? #145

Open walterg2 opened 3 years ago

walterg2 commented 3 years ago

I saw this mentioned in the caracal-rails repository, so I think it's worth asking the question. There are 17 PRs for this gem waiting to be responded to in some manner as well as a number of issues that seem to be users talking with users.

Ultimately, I'd love for this gem to stick around and stay up to date, but I can understand @jdugan has moved on from the day-to-day responsibilities for this gem. Should someone from the current owning company take this over, or give the ownership of this gem to the open-source community?

Hi, gents. Apologies for dropping the ball here. Caracal is well outside my day-to-day life now...and has been for many years, truthfully. Caracal was created for a company I worked for a decade ago and is now under the account of a different company with whom I have only a passing relationship. So, I'm the maintainer...but I'm also in kind of weird position. 🤷‍♂️

Originally posted by @jdugan in https://github.com/urvin-compliance/caracal-rails/issues/12#issuecomment-658595285

pliasystems commented 3 years ago

Hi - we'd be happy to turn this over to the open-source community, if you let me know what that would require.

walterg2 commented 3 years ago

I've not done a transfer personally, I was more interested in determining if this gem is, indeed, dead. Doing a bit of Googling, at the very least, you'd need to do these two things:

  1. Transfer Gem Ownership to the new steward(s)
  2. Transfer ownership of the repository to the new steward(s)

Other than that, I think it's mainly about finding someone(s) that are willing to take over ownership and maintenance of the gem itself.

ArisNance commented 9 months ago

@pliasystems I'm happy to have a conversation and also assist if the option is still option table.