Gqlgen: Is this project currently being discontinued?

[frederikhors]

I have a great concern in my heart: that sooner or later this majestic project will be archived. 😢

As it is currently in use in several of my projects I ask you with my heart in my hands and hope in my eyes: is this project currently being discontinued or is it active and maintained?

Every day I read several unanswered questions and many useful PRs that have been stuck for a long time: I'm really afraid.

Thanks for your answer.

[warent]

It is unfortunate that this repo seems to have been abandoned. I'm using it in production and it works great. There are so many people that actively use this and it's so important to app development I'm confident that we could fork the repo if necessary.

[ahummel25]

I see there are still commits and merges happening. Possible it's just a small number of maintainers on this repo who are maybe overwhelmed by the number of open issues?

[austincollinpena]

Yeah it works great for me, but the fact that it's not maintained is concerning. I would love a project update from maintainers.

Edit: I see some commits and merges, but it's slow going. I don't think there needs to be a huge amount of work done on this repo due to its nature but an update would be welcome. I saw an issue a while ago about batching with someone willing to sponsor that never got responded to.

If the maintainers need help, I think the word should be put out on top of the repo and in the docs. Perhaps there are some politics at play? I'm unsure what 99 designs needs out of the repo, and it was created, AFAIK, by them for them.

[mtibben]

is this project currently being discontinued or is it active and maintained?

Hey @frederikhors, almost 100 PRs have been merged this year alone. It depends on your definition of "maintained"!

Possible it's just a small number of maintainers on this repo who are maybe overwhelmed by the number of open issues?

Yeah that's the case @warent

Perhaps there are some politics at play?

No politics, just limited time.

I'm unsure what 99designs needs out of the repo, and it was created, AFAIK, by them for them

That's correct @austincollinpena - this GraphQL server drives 99designs.com

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Folks, this is open source and we'd be glad to hear of anyone willing to pitch in and help in any way. The simplest way you could start contributing immediately

• replying and helping resolve the many issues that get created every week
• reviewing code

@vektah has been the primary author/maintainer but he hasn't had a huge focus on this recently. That's OK. This library does the job for 99designs, and we're glad it also helps so many other people and use-cases.

[austincollinpena]

@mtibben How would you feel about a priority system to help newcomers contribute with a strong call to action at the top of the repo?

[hi019]

@mtibben Maybe we could reserve Issues for reproducible bug reports only, and questions could use Github Discussions? There also seem to be quite a few Issues that are resolved but not closed. I could help you close some of those if you would like. Giving select contributors permission to manage Issues in the repo would also help.

[mtibben]

Thanks for the tip @hi019 I've requested access to the beta 🤞