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darklow
Is this project still alive?
I see that the last commit in the v2 branch was five months ago, and there are loads of waiting PR's. Is the project maintainer still active? I'm considering using this library for a new project.
"Is the project maintainer still active?"
See: https://github.com/darklow for activity.
Not active enough to use the project... and it's not completely open source so you can't just fork it without dealing with license BS.
https://github.com/darklow/django-suit/blob/v2/LICENSE
non-commercial... which is like 90% of who would be interested in an admin dashboard system. This is a tough sell because a startup/company usually doesn't want to depend on something that can just be abandoned. No one else would fork it, because they can't re-license the non-commerical part themselves.
The license fee is very small; if you use this in non-commercial systems there is no license. If you use it in a commercial system then presumably you would be getting income for the work ... and most clients would have no problems paying for something like this.
So, I recently looked at this project, and I loved it... and I was about to pay the fee, but then realized it wasn't actively developed recently and v2 has several bugs still. So what to do? The fee isn't an issue, but what if it's never maintained again by the owner? People could fork it, but they can't sell it themselves, the commericial licensing is still completely owned by the original owner... which makes forking less attractive to someone to pick up and maintain. This means it's still chained to the original owner in a very real way... even if the original owner abandons it. This makes it much less attractive from a legevity/supportability standpoint.
Same issues here. Really like the thing, but dont feel like putting in a bunch of effort if it wont go completely open source.
@darklow any future foresight on this?
PS company i work for actually has a paid version
I've also asked for info on this via the email here on Github and the email on the https://djangosuit.com/ but after a week no reply.
I think the conclusion is that it is not an active project there are contributors fixing things but they are not integrated.
It would be nice if there is a message on the "https://djangosuit.com/", pypi.org and here saying that this project is no longer under active development.
Perhaps even to ask for someone to take over?
Some fast google results showed me some options (I havnt worked with any of these yet, but i also want to strip out django-suit)
https://github.com/ajenti/ajenti https://github.com/sehmaschine/django-grappelli
django-grappelli is a very good project (have used it elsewhere) but it has nothing like the functionality of suit.
Ajenti is a completely different kind of system altogether; at a quick glance it seems to be designed to work with an API backend (I guess Django-DRF) but is not really a simple, direct replacement for Django's admin.