Is this project still maintained?

[thedumbterminal]

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There are several pull requests and issues that have not been replied to by anyone that contributes to this project for sometime.

Is there a specific process or person(s) that need to be contacted so outstanding feature requests are dealt with?

Thanks in advance.

[ziirish]

Hi,

I'm afraid we can say indeed that this project is mostly unmaintained :/
Unfortunately I'm the last maintainer remaining with very few spare time available for OSS anymore. I'm also not using this library for professional projects.

I'm very sad about this situation.

[peter-doggart]

@ziirish My company are using flask-restx for a few of our projects so I wouldn't mind getting involved in ongoing maintenance if that would help keep it alive?

I didn't realize there was a lack of maintainers because it's always worked so well for us!

[app-generator]

@ziirish same here.
Let us know if we can help.

[asherpasha]

I can also help ... as much as I can.

[thedumbterminal]

@ziirish Thanks for the reply, this was my fear also as I noticed no activity :-(

Is there an alternative project that people are now using for building a REST server in python? I thought this was the most popular library to use? If there is something newer/better that people are moving to then thats the natural order of things, but otherwise I'd love to help keep this project alive.

[plenzjr]

I'm also interested in contributing to the project.
please let me know if i can help

[carlosvega]

It might be of interest.
https://github.com/python-restx/flask-restx/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.rst

[silasary]

@carlosvega None of that helps with the triage and merging of the 43 open pull requests, unfortunately

[ziirish]

Hi,

Thanks for your answers and interest in flask-restx!
While building flask-restx (after forking flask-restplus) we have spent a lot of time and effort automating a lot of things so we could onboard new developers/maintainers more easily. Hopefully now is the time to recruit new people!

I will take some time in the coming days/weeks to invite some of you to take responsibilities in the project and I will also try to prepare a new release with urgent compatibility fixes (I definitely won't have time to review new features). This should allow me to document the process and see if our current material is still up-to-date.

[peter-doggart]

@ziirish That sounds like a great plan. We definitely want to keep all of your previous hard work in this project going.

[app-generator]

Hello @ziirish & ty for your efforts.
Might be a good idea to add some sponsorship tiers.
🚀🚀

[thedumbterminal]

Just looking at previously merged PRs and it seems there was a coverage integration that auto ran, and example of this is on this PR: #327

Maybe reenabling this would give greater confidence when merging some of the outstanding PRs.

Also whilst we wait for @ziirish we could start reviewing other's PRs to make sure they are ready to be merged.

[seanieb]

@ziirish happy to help too.