Help Wanted: Maintenance

[kelyvin]

Hi Everyone,

Thanks for all of your support, downloads, issue requests, and feedback! This project was originally built to solve a personal problem that I experienced and I'm glad to see that it's also been helping others in similar situations.

I am opening up this separate ticket to request some help with the maintenance of this project. I have been unable to keep up with all my projects and have neglected some of my other popular ones (to the point where I get pinged regularly to address them). As a result, I am humbly asking for the help of the open source community to help grow this project even further. I will be sure to include credits.

I will still be available to help review, approve, and merge any PR's. A lot has been going on in my life (professionally and personally) and I unfortunately do not have the extra bandwidth to investigate all of the requests/issues.

Thank you for your patience and continued use! Feel free to use this thread if you have any specific questions.

[JosephScript]

@kelyvin thing you'd be able to merge this one? #39

[pbanj]

@kelyvin if you want to give me push access, i dont mind helping out.

[Levi-Lesches]

@kelyvin, I found OrangeDragon/android-messages-desktop, a fork of chrisknepper/android-messages-desktop. It seems android-messages-desktop started around the same time as you did: acaafeb on 6/23/2018 and chrisknepper/android-messages-desktop@793f0e3 on 6/21/2018. The latter project is still being actively maintained, with the latest commit as recently as a week ago.

It's always difficult when two projects that offer identical functionality are being developed independently. Both of you deserve massive respect for bringing this to the community. However, if you're looking for someone else to carry the work, perhaps you would like to defer to @OrangeDrangon (or he takes over this). Sadly, I had a few issues using this project, such as the old build warning and inability to sign into Google Fi. android-messages-desktop does work in those regards and integrates with the taskbar without issue (at least in my usage).

I wouldn't normally recommend a fellow developer to deprecate their own project, especially not after spending years on it, but if you're looking to move on and want to ensure the community is in good hands, perhaps it would be more productive to focus community efforts towards one project instead.

[OrangeDrangon]

There is no reason for the packages not to coexist but feel free to send users my way if you want to. I try to keep everything working :)

[kelyvin]

Thanks @Levi-Lesches for your very thoughtful message and hi @OrangeDrangon! I actually have no problem directing the community over to you.

The original intention of this project was to be a "utility app" to not only help prove out a concept, but also provide some quick value. I did not expect this project to be as popular as it did and like many other open-sourced projects, there is appetite for more and more features (understandably so). I can't keep up with this, but since your project is not only actively maintained, but built on a more robust ecosystem, I would be more than happy to also promote your project and help usher people in your direction.

With that said, I will still keep this project around to support the folks who may still be using it (if they haven't already left), but I will start the process on funneling folks over.