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Ask HN: What abandoned OSS project would you like to see revived?

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Re: Ask HN: What abandoned OSS project would you like to see revived?

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Post by zachlatta »

rouxz wrote: post #30
zachlatta wrote: post #21

I used to make a few small contributions to https://github.com/msmhq/msm , but no longer have the time and nobody else has stepped up. If you'd be interested, I'm happy to give you commit permissions - just shoot me an email (in HN profile).

Just curiosity, have you made any $ through donations? I consider doing full time open source development in similar niche (game servers, twitch related tools). Searching now for success stories. Hope to make a little cash via donations but not going paid/closed software model.

Not sure, I'm not the one that created the project and never had access to the PayPal. We do rely on monthly supporters of our open source work at https://hackclub.com and the #1 learning is to ask for monthly commitments. $5/month is much more meaningful than a one time gift of $5.

Re: Ask HN: What abandoned OSS project would you like to see revived?

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Post by hayleox »

undoware wrote: post #8

It's a protocol, not a project, but it's one beloved to FOSS: RSS

I don't really want to see RSS improved, I just want the world to embrace JSON Feed as its replacement (https://jsonfeed.org/). Probably never gonna happen though -- there's not enough value to incentive any websites to implement it.

Re: Ask HN: What abandoned OSS project would you like to see revived?

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Post by Mononokay »

billyjobob wrote: post #25

I would like hot corners on Linux, but all the programs that I find seem to be abandoned. https://github.com/brianhsu/xfce4-hotcorner-plugin looks most promising, but it needs updating to work with current XFCE.

KDE supports them by default, if I'm remembering correctly. If not default it's in settings.

Re: Ask HN: What abandoned OSS project would you like to see revived?

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Post by nathan_f77 »

Deis Workflow [1]

I had really high hopes for this, but the team was acquired by Microsoft and the project was abandoned. I don't think is a job for a single developer, so it probably needs a company to sponsor development. EDIT: They updated the README recently with a link to a fork [2], but there's no new commits for 7 months.

I'm very happy with convox [3] now, and they're mostly open source [4]. Their management console is a freemium SaaS service, which includes GitHub/GitLab/Slack integrations. The console can be self-hosted, but that requires an enterprise license.

[1] https://github.com/deis/workflow

[2] https://github.com/teamhephy/workflow

[3] https://convox.com/

[4] https://github.com/convox/rack

Re: Ask HN: What abandoned OSS project would you like to see revived?

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Post by deegles »

Amphetype - https://code.google.com/archive/p/amphetype/

It's an old typing tutor that uses statistics about your typing speed on different character combinations to generate customized lessons... I haven't seen those features in any other tutor. I used it years ago to train myself in a new keyboard layout. I would love to see an updated, maybe web enabled version that replicates the tracking and custom lesson features.

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