Re: who maintains NSS

On Fri, 27 Oct 2023 at 16:02, Melvin Carvalho <melvincarvalho@gmail.com>
wrote:

> I've been asking the question of who maintains NSS since January
>
> I asked on the chat, I also raised an issue here which was not answered
> for several weeks:
>
>
> https://github.com/nodeSolidServer/node-solid-server/issues/1740#issue-1931389217
>
> A JS solid server and an active maintenance team are crucial for our
> project.
>
> Would anyone in the community be interested in contributing to this
> initiative?
>
> Michiel, can you give a status update please?
>
Since you asked for my personal opinion here, I'll add it:
In 2019, Jackson and I announced EOL for NSS. But then it didn't happen.
And I think NSS has been bravely maintained by Alain Bourgeois over the
years.
Now, however, I think it's finally time to EOL it and move all our
efforts to CSS.
CSS is not perfect, but it's in TypeScript and the code is cleaner, more
performant, and less buggy.
We're already seeing developers walk away from solidcommunity.net because
it's running NSS which cannot do all the things CSS can.
So in my opinion, it's now finally time to:
1) Add Mahdi Baghbani as a sysadmin on solidcommunity.net (sponsored by
Ponder Source to contribute to its maintenance during work time)
2) Migrate solidcommunity.net to CSS v7.0.0
3) See if anybody else is still using NSS for anything, warn them about
the EOL plans which, four years later than planned, will finally happen
now, and help them migrate too.
4) Once everybody has found an alternative to whatever they were using NSS
for, we set the GitHub repo to 'archived' and update the readme to say the
project is no longer maintained, pointing people to
https://solidservers.org/#table to help them switch to one of the other
five Solid server implementations.

That's my personal answer to your question, since you asked. Other people
may have different answers! :)


Cheers,
Michiel