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Is this still maintained? Does anyone care? Is this project dead?

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Assessment

Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Newbie friendliness
15/100
Issue type
Documentation
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
aws, python
Domain
cloud

Research direction

Start by reviewing the zappa_settings.json instruction and the important pull requests referenced in the issue. Done would require a clear maintenance decision and communicating whether users should disable precompiled packages.

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Description

If not, please instruct everyone using zappa to have this in their zappa_settings.json

        "use_precompiled_packages": false

There are many important pull requests that are just sitting there. Merge it or close down this project if it's dead.

Dominant language
Shell
Stars
728
Forks
157
PR merge metrics
No merged PRs in 30d

Getting set up

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First steps

  1. Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
  2. Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
  3. Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
  4. Open a pull request that references the issue number.

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