Future of this project

[greg19]

Hi @Stu142!

I've noticed that you were not engaged in this project for a few months and I wanted to ask you what are your future plans for it. To be clear, I understand that circumstances and interests change and there is no obligation from anyone to maintain an open source project. I just want to know how the broader community should approach it. Recently new people took the time to create some PRs with some really cool features. This workbench is the 6th most popular one in FreeCAD and it's a shame to see that it isn't being actively maintained. If you need help testing and merging the PRs, I can help with that. I want to avoid forking the project as it is a rather painful process, but if you want to completely step down and no longer be associated with it I'm also open for that route. What are your thoughts?

Cheers!

[Stu142]

@greg19 Thanks for your work and continued dedication to the project. I took a new job and had a busy summer and interest in the project and finding time to do it kind of drifted away. I would like to get back to a place of contributing to the project. At the very least, I will do my best to get on top of adding the community contributions for now.

[Stu142]

As I look at the PRs that have been submitted do you see an optimal order to merge them in as I have not been paying much attention latelty am planning to try and work back in.

[greg19]

As I look at the PRs that have been submitted do you see an optimal order to merge them in as I have not been paying much attention latelty am planning to try and work back in.

PRs #139, #130, #129 and #133 should be good to go. Then #135 also looks reasonable. PR #136 still needs fixing. I've only looked at the code though, not tested in practice.

[larsborn]

@Stu142 thanks for getting back into game. LMK if I can help somehow!

[kinghat]

maybe co-maintainers could be added to the project. i have to think about this myself with my own repo.

[Stu142]

I merged a couple of these today.

Maybe co-maintainers could be added to the project.

I have no experience with this but at this point I have not been as commited to the project and would be open to it. I don't know how it works or anything like that.

[kinghat]

no experience either but i think you can assign users to roles, who can merge to branches, cut releases, etc. the freecad repo itself has users with a myriad of roles.

[larsborn]

I'd be happy to step in as a helper or co-maintainer if it would help keep the project going.