Re: Discovered wxPython-Zombie

Lol. In all seriousness, I don’t think judging a project as “dead” based on Github activity is a good measure. If one is concerned about whether or not a project is “dead”, it would seem to me to be more appropriate to contact the maintainer(s) first before making that call. Perhaps all of the major bugs have been squashed and with places reopening the maintainers are taking some time to mentally air out. it is summer after all. Lol.

However, the most prudent course of action to put this “controversy” to rest would be to contact Robin and ask, and doing so before declaring a project “dead” would also be a matter of simple courtesy as well.

Perhaps it’s more a case of Schroedinger’s Cat.. Lol

> On Jul 8, 2021, at 9:54 AM, Matt Newville <[email protected]> wrote:
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> On Thu, Jul 8, 2021 at 11:24 AM Charles McKnight <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
> I disagree about months of inactivity being any sort of indicator on Github. wxPython is a relatively mature, stable product as is the wxWidgets library it is built atop. I’m seeing severael pull requests on Github so it may be more likely that Robin is just busy with other things right now.
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> Well, I think it is not unreasonable to read "no visible activity on GitHub (or similar)"  as an indication of a deficit of "life" for a project.  I'm certainly not agreeing with the claim of "dead".  "Resting" and "stable and so not actively developed" are certainly acceptable states for a project, and often preferable.     
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> So, one response might be "you say 'dead' as if that is a bad thing".   
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> But if one is going to start an argument demanding proof of death, they might want to have evidence of life.
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> --Matt
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