Was there a thread here about libraries in need of help?

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If I remember correctly, there was a discussion on this forum a while ago about the need to maintain existing libraries that are no longer actively maintained by their original developers. I can’t find the original thread at the moment and was wondering if any actions have been taken on that discussion?

I’m approaching a respectable age soon where I’ll have more time to do fun things. I’m therefore considering taking on the maintenance of a library. I was looking for a list of existing libraries that are looking for a maintainer, but I haven’t found such a list yet. Does anyone know of an actively maintained list of libraries that are seeking a maintainer?

If such a list doesn’t exist, how could you build one?

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What Erlang/BEAM related stuff are you doing?
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I believe the thread you are referring to was this one: Heroku replaces its Erlang-based router with Go . As far as I’m aware, there is no such list… :confused: Maybe you could start by compiling one :wink:

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If Heroku had been running on Erlang until now without any issues, the reason for this replacement would not be scalability problems, but something else. Rigth?

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If you read the linked thread (@MononcQc made some educated guesses there): no, probably not. If I understand it correctly, tl;dr they painted themselves in a corner, and the people who could fix it had already left when that lead to problems.

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