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Project dead?

Open olalonde opened this issue 9 years ago • 3 comments

Hi @brenden, I noticed your last activity on this repo was about 8 months ago and there are lots of unmerged PRs and opened issues. If you don't have time or interest maintaining it, maybe consider adding some collaborators to keep the project alive?

olalonde avatar Sep 30 '16 04:09 olalonde

Hey @olalonde,

Fair question to ask given the current state of this repo. I had some intention of doing more work on it someday but that clearly hasn't happened (and might never). Sorry everyone for my general neglect of this project!

Moving forward I'd be happy to add some more collaborators if there are people who are interested in maintaining the project. I can't commit to doing much more work on it so I would also be fine just transferring its ownership to someone else.

Otherwise, I'll make sure to add a deprecation notice to the readme. (Looks like there are now some other node libraries that you could use for taking webpage screenshots, e.g. https://github.com/casperjs/casperjs).

brenden avatar Oct 02 '16 00:10 brenden

Thanks for the update!

I didn't know about casperjs but at a quick glance, it doesn't seem to support streaming output for screenshots which I'm using.

Anyways, maybe you could add a Looking for maintainers at the top of the README and link to here? I don't think I have enough time to maintain it myself either but if no one comes forward and no alternative (e.g. casperjs) is good enough, I might consider.

olalonde avatar Oct 02 '16 00:10 olalonde

I think there are indeed now better alternatives:

  • https://github.com/kevva/screenshot-stream
  • https://github.com/sindresorhus/pageres
  • http://webdriver.io/

etc.

olalonde avatar Oct 27 '16 06:10 olalonde