Re: who maintains NSS

pá 27. 10. 2023 v 17:08 odesílatel Michiel de Jong <michiel@pondersource.com>
napsal:

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> On Fri, 27 Oct 2023 at 16:02, Melvin Carvalho <melvincarvalho@gmail.com>
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>> I've been asking the question of who maintains NSS since January
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>> I asked on the chat, I also raised an issue here which was not answered
>> for several weeks:
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>> https://github.com/nodeSolidServer/node-solid-server/issues/1740#issue-1931389217
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>> A JS solid server and an active maintenance team are crucial for our
>> project.
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>> Would anyone in the community be interested in contributing to this
>> initiative?
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>> Michiel, can you give a status update please?
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> 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 project is no longer maintained, pointing people to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.
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> That's my personal answer to your question, since you asked. Other people
> may have different answers! :)
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By the way you havent answered the question.  I have over the last 10
months asked a simple question as to who is maintaining one of our main
servers.

I have sent X chat messages, Y emails, Z issues over 9 months to find out.
9 months!

https://github.com/nodeSolidServer/node-solid-server/teams

This team is only visible to insiders.

It's impossible for the grass roots to participate in such a ridiculous
bureaucracy.  Something needs to change, and quickly.

Timbl:  please can you help here.  Im not asking for the world.  Just to
find out who is looking after something as a means to help use and
contribute to the software.  It should not take 9 months.


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> Cheers,
> Michiel
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