alt Hacker News9 months since the last major release definitely feels like a short time in which to declare time-of-death on an open source project
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LtWorf • yesterday at 10:19 AM
But if you set up dependabot and automerge some crap every couple of days your project will be very active!
Meanwhile my projects got marked as abandoned because those scanners are unaware of codeberg being a thing.
hobofan • yesterday at 9:13 AM
It is also lagging behind in terms of Python releases. They are currently on 3.11, which was released 3.5 years ago for mainline Python.
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It’s been a lot longer than that. There was a reasonable sized effort to provide binaries via conda-forge but the users never came. That said, the PyPy devs were always a pleasure to work with.