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Neofetch development discontinued, repository archived (github.com)

submitted 4 months ago by pro_grammer@programming.dev to c/opensource@lemmy.ml

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The author's profile says this:

"Have taken up farming."

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[-] Sanctus@lemmy.world 70 points 4 months ago

[-] thingsiplay@beehaw.org 54 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Finally it's official. I think it's a good move to make it an archived repository, so everyone knows for a fact this is not developed anymore. That means bugs or security issues are no longer actively searched and corrected. I wonder if this program will be taken out from distribution repositories now. My personal alternative is fastfetch .

Edit: ... oh, I didn't realize all of his repositories are now archived. Not only neofetch: https://github.com/dylanaraps?tab=repositories

[-] otter@lemmy.ca 22 points 4 months ago

Hopefully the dev is doing well, and has luck with whatever he's doing now

[-] thingsiplay@beehaw.org 20 points 4 months ago

Looking at the readme edit history: https://github.com/dylanaraps/dylanaraps/commits/master/

First edit 3 years ago: Away till the New Year. Merry Christmas.
Then next edit 10 month ago replacing that line with: On hiatus.
Then next edit 4 days ago replacing that line with: Have taken up farming.

English is not my native language, and I don't understand what "Have taken up farming.", but I have my guesses. means. Normally I don't interpret such a situation, but it doesn't look good. Most contributions of the software is 3 years old, and only a few readme and link updates recently are made alongside making everything archived.

[-] bjorney@lemmy.ca 49 points 4 months ago

English is not my native language, and I don't understand what "Have taken up farming."

It means they aren't developing software anymore because they are growing vegetables instead

[-] GammaGames@beehaw.org 34 points 4 months ago

Stardew update hitting the dev world hard

[-] thingsiplay@beehaw.org 10 points 4 months ago

Hmm, maybe it really means it literally. I mean it would not surprise me if the person really started or taken over by farming and giving up programming. Be it having too much pressure from all sites, for writing software that many people use. Or be it financial. Who knows. I wish him best luck.

[-] andrew@radiation.party 14 points 4 months ago

It’s not unheard of in folks who are in software dev because they love the repetition and routine. Farming is pretty similar to programming a computer, just with tons more manual labor.

[-] not_amm@lemmy.ml 1 points 4 months ago

So true, I'm still a student, but taking care of my plants daily is relaxing and repetitive, also some problem solving when there are plagues lol

[-] greybeard@lemmy.one 5 points 4 months ago

You are probably right that it isn't literal. In IT I often hear "Goat farming" as meaning getting out of IT.

[-] God@lemmy.org 4 points 4 months ago

Impressive, fastfetch even displays the battery%.

[-] umbrella@lemmy.ml 47 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

there should be some kind of notification system whenever something goes unmaintained. ive used unmaintained software for way too long before finding out theres some fork.

[-] Reawake9179@lemmy.kde.social 26 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

As long as it works perfectly and it makes no security related headlines, i'm fine with running abandoned ware.

If something stops working it's time to find out the alternatives.

Not every little tool needs weekly updates

[-] umbrella@lemmy.ml 8 points 4 months ago

the finding out alternatives is the annoying part for me, you always have to be on some niche place online (eg lemmy) to discover them. that and ive used a lot of security sensitive abandonware i really wouldnt otherwise.

[-] sleepmode@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago

Hackernews is usually reliable to see what the new hotness is. But yeah this is a frequent problem.

[-] thingsiplay@beehaw.org 2 points 4 months ago

As long as it works perfectly and it makes no security related headlines, i’m fine with running abandoned ware.

That means Windows XP is perfectly okay as abandon ware, becuase it makes no security related headlines. :p (just joking!)

[-] GolfNovemberUniform@lemmy.ml -1 points 4 months ago

This

[-] dessalines@lemmy.ml 8 points 4 months ago

On arch's user repository, packages can get marked as out of date, unmaintained, and sometimes removed entirely.

[-] umbrella@lemmy.ml 3 points 4 months ago

i didnt know that, is the user notified somehow?

[-] dessalines@lemmy.ml 5 points 4 months ago

When you run pacman or one of the aur helpers, it'll tell you.

[-] umbrella@lemmy.ml 4 points 4 months ago

thats actually awesome! would love to see it on more package managers!

[-] joe_cool@lemmy.ml 3 points 4 months ago

My AUR helper trizen tells me, yes.

[-] riodoro1@lemmy.world 35 points 4 months ago

Software which achieved no actual purpose discontinued. Open source community in tears.

[-] beeng@discuss.tchncs.de 25 points 4 months ago

Where's the new rust version?

[-] 56_@lemmy.ml 2 points 4 months ago

https://crates.io/search?q=neofetch brings up 21 versions to choose from (21 are actual neofetch clones). There is also a library to help you write even more of them.