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This silence is deafening. Is it now the right time to start making up conspiracy theories? lol

Open ghost opened this issue 5 years ago • 4 comments

@intika can you please at least tell us when you'll probably have some info to share with us? THANK YOU :heart:

ghost avatar Jan 15 '20 09:01 ghost

Or at least archive the repo.

shreyasminocha avatar Jan 15 '20 10:01 shreyasminocha

@intika please tell us something about the current state of the project, we know you're active on github (last time - january 2020) so why not drop a few words here please?

ghost avatar Feb 01 '20 11:02 ghost

It's been over a year since the last commit to this repo.

Calendar notification saying: One year since last commit on LibreFox

3 February, 2020 will be the one-year anniversary of their last interaction with us.

Like you said, @intika has been active on GH. They pushed a commit yesterday, according to their contribution graph. I follow them on GH and they regularly star repos. They still actively maintain some of their other repositories. This repository is still on top of their pinned repositories. [email protected] is still the email listed on their profile. It's still the email they use to commit:

commit 0388819c1a39da69599ee10d9ca898e7a187def9 (HEAD -> master, origin/master, origin/HEAD)
Author: intika <[email protected]>
Date:   Fri Jan 31 13:15:36 2020 +0100

    initial project cleaning

It seems that they renewed the domain in December 2019. Is this a clue or is it just because they rely on the email address? I don't know.

❯ whois librefox.org
…
Updated Date: 2019-12-26T05:45:06Z
Creation Date: 2018-12-17T22:40:13Z
Registry Expiry Date: 2020-12-17T22:40:13Z
…

By the way, is someone at FOSDEM? @intika might be attending—they did last year. That might be a good chance to ask them. @AnXh3L0?

They probably have this repository muted.

There's no lack of attempts we've made to reach out to them—we've even written emails.

I still have a lot of respect for them, but I've nearly given up hope of them ever getting back to us. The only reason I still watch this repo is for the off-chance that someday they'll post an explanation for their "disappearance".

Like even a simple "I no longer have time to work on this" would suffice honestly; that's perfectly valid, maintaining FOSS is hard. We'd get so much closure—I'm clearly very invested (even emotionally at this point) in this for some absurd reason.

But I think it's time to give up on that too. Welp. It really do be like that sometimes, I guess.

shreyasminocha avatar Feb 01 '20 12:02 shreyasminocha

@shreyasminocha I haven't had any sort of contact whatsoever with Intika since the meeting at FOSDEM last year. I will not be at FOSDEM this year so that's kinda it I guess.

AnXh3L0 avatar Feb 01 '20 14:02 AnXh3L0