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[francium]

Hi everyone,

I've been meaning to write this for a long time. As can be noticed from the queue of PRs and unanswered issues, this project is no longer receiving the attention and maintenance it needs. As a volunteer project, it needs people who are willing to commit time to make sure the things are running smoothly. For a long time, I've been the primary maintainer. But now I'd be lying to myself and everyone else if I said I'm will be able to continue maintaining this project and give it the time and attention it needs.

I believe the best thing now is:

• make this announcement to let users of this library know it will no longer be maintained, no more releases will be made, no more fixes or features
• anyone interested in doing so is welcome to fork this project and re-release it under the terms of the project's license, and maintain it under new management

My rationale for not welcoming new maintainers for this project is because (1) I do not have the capacity to oversee a transition, (2) I do not know of anyone I trust enough that I can hand this project off to immediately, (3) handing the project to an unknown party is not in the best interest of current users of this library.

cc @dbrgn @wbolster if by any chance either of you are interested in taking up maintenance of this project please let me know

[wbolster]

unfortunately i feel the same, and will not be stepping up my efforts.

i have come to the conclusion that this style of programming simply does not lend itself well to the python ecosystem, both for technical and cultural reasons, and it looks like it will remain an ‘odd’ niche.

thanks for your time and effort over the years, @francium! ❤️🤗