alexcrichton/ssh2-rs

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#228 opened on Aug 17, 2021

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Description

I do not personally have time to maintain this crate any more and I suspect the other maintainers are also quite short on time nowadays. I think it's time to put out an "official" call for "this crate is in maintenance mode now". The way I personally view this crate:

  • For ssh2 I think anyone who's interested can pick it up. I'm not going to merge any changes to ssh2 as a crate from now on most likely.
  • For libssh2-sys this is depended on by libgit2-sys which is used by Cargo, so it is a pretty important dependency. I will try to merge bug/security fixes myself but other than that I don't have the time to help improve this.

If you'd like to help maintain this leave a comment here. I'm happy to transfer ssh2 ownership and such without much ado, but for libssh2-sys you'll need to be a relatively trusted member of the Rust community since Cargo depends on it.

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Understand the crate's role and dependency on libssh2 sys. Review open issues and PRs. Contact the maintainer to express interest and discuss responsibilities.
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rust
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networking
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