There are several script writers who seem to have left the game - Bale, Bumcheekcity and Winterbay come immediately to mind. Yet their scripts, perhaps with local modifications, remain in use.
Is there any community process that we want to consider to pass the baton on maintenance? Clearly forking and rehosting is the obvious solution although there also needs to be some kind of reassurance that the original author is no longer available or maintaining the script.
As a maintainer I'm already using SourceForge for a repository and Kolmafia.us for support. But Github clearly works as well and there is at least one script out there that is getting updates from several contributors at Github. My concern would be support. I have stopped using several scripts that were announced on Kolmafia but the authors were unresponsive to comments made here and I was not willing to get a Github account so I could post comments and requests or join a clan forum to make reports there. So in my perfect world, a fork that has the "blessing" of the community would also monitor and respond to support issues on Kolmafia.us.
Thoughts? Comments?
Thanks.
Is there any community process that we want to consider to pass the baton on maintenance? Clearly forking and rehosting is the obvious solution although there also needs to be some kind of reassurance that the original author is no longer available or maintaining the script.
As a maintainer I'm already using SourceForge for a repository and Kolmafia.us for support. But Github clearly works as well and there is at least one script out there that is getting updates from several contributors at Github. My concern would be support. I have stopped using several scripts that were announced on Kolmafia but the authors were unresponsive to comments made here and I was not willing to get a Github account so I could post comments and requests or join a clan forum to make reports there. So in my perfect world, a fork that has the "blessing" of the community would also monitor and respond to support issues on Kolmafia.us.
Thoughts? Comments?
Thanks.