Nuget are now acknowledging the need for new maintainers and are looking for ideas about where to host the repo moving forward.
I've also raised the possibility of outside maintainers for the package while it remains under their organisation to see if there's any openness.
Ideas/suggestions would be welcome: https://github.com/NuGet/json-ld.net/issues/26
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On 10 Apr 2018, 21:41, at 21:41, Andrew Gibson <tinycode2@gmail.com> wrote:
>Many thanks for the help, all.
>
>I'll continue to repair our fork
>(https://github.com/fluenttechnology/json-ld.net) which will be helpful
>in the interim.
>
>If still necessary, and time permitting I'll look at modernising the
>build, test and runtime sometime in May/June of this year.
>
>I'll reply to this thread again if Nuget doesn't start merging in some
>changes in a month or so.
>
>On 10 Apr 2018, 21:20, at 21:20, "Asbjørn Ulsberg" <asbjorn@ulsberg.no>
>wrote:
>> 2018-04-10 2:17 GMT+02:00 David I. Lehn <dil@lehn.org>:
>>
>>> Having the main organization host implementations seems to add a
>>whole
>>> bunch of responsibilities that are avoided by using external links.
>>> The group would have to handle licensing, ownership, finding
>>> maintainers, manage user access, maybe handle package manager
>release
>>> access, etc. That being said, it would be nice to have a central
>>> place for implementations. Although certainly would be weird if the
>>> json-ld org is only hosting the .NET lib!
>>
>>Good points. I'm happy to report that the issue I created earlier
>>today regarding the stewardship of the json-ld.net repository has
>>gotten replies from Microsoft:
>>
>>https://github.com/NuGet/json-ld.net/issues/26
>>
>>So, I guess we'll just have to await their decision.
>>
>>--
>>Asbjørn Ulsberg -=|=- asbjorn@ulsberg.no
>>«He's a loathsome offensive brute, yet I can't look away»