Draggable: Is this project abandoned?

[user72356]

I'm putting in a lot of time learning this lib and writing wrappers around it to use it in my projects.

As I'm getting deeper into it I'm getting the sense that this project was initially developed internally at Shopify, released and then more or less left to rot for the past 3 years? I'm noticing that most activity seems to be by a couple of users while the original authors moved on, while at the same keeping the exclusive approval rights for contributions. That's despite the main page stating that "Maintenance of this repo has been passed on to new collaborators and is no longer worked on by anyone at Shopify."

Is this project used at Shopify at all? What's the impetus for not relinquishing some of the rights to the more prominent contributors?

I guess what I'm asking is if the project has been abandoned by its main sponsor and if I should worry about its future and the current maintenance model?

[zjffun]

I think this project has not been abandoned, because it is currently inviting maintainers. I was invited to participate in the maintenance of this project in #312 . We also invited others but did not receive a response.

[bahung1221]

We still looking for more contributors.
And exactly, we also have a problem since the CI/CD workflow isn't passed at some step (I don't know what is the reason), so we still need the original author who has admin permission to this repository to forcing merge the code

But don't worry about it, we still working on it and we also wait for @tsov to update the CI/CD workflow to allow the other maintainers to merge pull requests.
And I think the state of Draggable will be more stable after v1.0.0-beta.12 was released, the major issues were fixed

On the other hand, the core architecture of Draggable is event-driven pattern, so it very flexible for other developers to develop their own Draggable plugins, it's mean you won't be limited much by Draggable when the core functionality is stable enough (LOL, of course, there were issues we still need to resolve).

Thanks 🎉

[user72356]

Cool, and do you know a little bit about the history of this lib? Why it was built at Shopify and if it's in use over there? Just from deduction I would say it was initially developed and used at Shopify, but the company is no longer using it and therefore is no longer asking its developers to maintain it?

It's not super important in the grand scheme of things, but since I'll be using it in a professional setting, I like to know a little bit about the background of what I'm using!

Thanks!

[bahung1221]

I don't know the current usage of it at Shopify. Maybe you will find some information here #241 😄

[user72356]

Very helpful thank you.