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Should the ecosystem move to an organization?

Open asinghvi17 opened this issue 1 year ago • 2 comments

Hey, it may make sense to move the FilePaths ecosystem to an org (maybe JuliaIO, or spin up a new JuliaFileAccess org or something) for maintainability and to reduce bus factor.

Just a thought, it's not particularly urgent. Happy to facilitate if needed.

asinghvi17 avatar Aug 29 '24 20:08 asinghvi17

Possibly. I feel like JuliaIO could make sense, though I don't believe I'm in that org currently. I haven't personally found adding packages to orgs really helps address the maintenance issue, it's still a tragedy of the commons problem. For example, BSON.jl also has a bunch of unaddressed issues and hasn't had an update since Jan. That being said, it can be a convenient way of lowering the bus factor, rather than adding individual folks to specific repos.

rofinn avatar Aug 30 '24 23:08 rofinn

Yeah, it is quite a problem - I guess the downside of having widely used packages is that there are a lot more bugs for comparatively fewer developers per user...

In case you'd like to move the repos to JuliaIO, let me know and I can get the ball rolling over there!

asinghvi17 avatar Sep 02 '24 22:09 asinghvi17