A proper way of handling this would have been to abandon the project and let someone else pick it up. My understanding is that he did move the source code under his own git user, so hopefully he’ll allow someone else to pick it and maintain.
It's not hard to find: https://github.com/fafhrd91/actix-web
> so hopefully he’ll allow someone else to pick it and maintain.
It uses the both the Apache and MIT licenses, each of which clearly allows redistribution of derivative works. It will be interesting to see if anyone (much less the abusive people) are willing to put their money where their mouths are about it.
I think he's being very gracious, all things considered.
Not a problem. Just fork it and put in the work to maintain it. The license grants anyonr that right. What stops anyone from doing it?
If that's too much to ask then perhaps it should put into perspective how project maintainers are abused.
It's true I think everyone should do what I do which is to fork anything I think I might need at some point , but that isn't what you actually suggested and it isn't what the parent comment was observing could be a problem for people.
> P.S. I moved actix-net and actix-web project to my personal github account.
So he's transferred it to:
https://github.com/fafhrd91/actix-web
Feel free to fork, take a copy, start a new repo. The project is dual Apache/MIT licensed so feel free to do whatever you want within its very liberal scope.
What you're not entitled to do is demand anything from the author or to take up any of his time. Take his code, but don't demand anything else from him.
> Nowadays supporting actix project is not fun, and be part of rust community is not fun as well.
> I am done with open source.
He's over the abuse and entitlement his received over the project and obviously doesn't want to spend any more of his time on it.