Actix project postmortem

Asking for a friend - could someone explain what happened there? The README doc is quite vague - it is more of a personal justification than a rationale (to me).

Re: Actix project postmortem

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Post by mrunkel » Fri, Jan 17, 2020, 12:48 PM UTC

Removing the repos seems to be a bit much especially since he is planning on making them private and then deleting them.

Why not just leave them in place if you're burned out and see if anyone is willing to take over maintainership.

Given, I don't know the history, but I always feel a bit of pain when code gets lost or destroyed in the heat of the moment.

Re: Actix project postmortem

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Post by ealexhudson » Fri, Jan 17, 2020, 12:51 PM UTC

3jckd wrote: post #4

Asking for a friend - could someone explain what happened there? The README doc is quite vague - it is more of a personal justification than a rationale (to me).

Sounds like the maintainer writes a lot of code using rust's "unsafe" keyword, and regularly gets issues raised about this (and versioning, and some other bits).

This last issue, which included a patch, has pushed them over the edge after it descended into disagreement.

Net/net they were repeatedly asked to change coding style, didn't want to, and have decided it's better to just avoid the arguments by not publishing code.

Re: Actix project postmortem

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Post by wffurr » Fri, Jan 17, 2020, 12:51 PM UTC

3jckd wrote: post #4

Asking for a friend - could someone explain what happened there? The README doc is quite vague - it is more of a personal justification than a rationale (to me).

https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/epszt7/actixnet_unsou... context for the "boring" patch.

Actix is full of "unsafe" blocks and the maintainer got a constant stream of criticism over it.

Re: Actix project postmortem

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Post by phoe-krk » Fri, Jan 17, 2020, 12:53 PM UTC

3jckd wrote: post #4

Asking for a friend - could someone explain what happened there? The README doc is quite vague - it is more of a personal justification than a rationale (to me).

https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/epszt7/actixnet_unsou... has more context.

Re: Actix project postmortem

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Post by robin_reala » Fri, Jan 17, 2020, 12:54 PM UTC

mrunkel wrote: post #5

Removing the repos seems to be a bit much especially since he is planning on making them private and then deleting them. Why not just leave them in place if you're burned out and see if anyone is willing to take over maintainership. Given, I don't know the history, but I always feel a bit of pain when code gets lost or destroyed in the heat of the moment.

They have been moved to his personal account for the time being:

https://github.com/fafhrd91/actix-web

https://github.com/fafhrd91/actix-net

Re: Actix project postmortem

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Post by seren » Fri, Jan 17, 2020, 12:54 PM UTC

3jckd wrote: post #4

Asking for a friend - could someone explain what happened there? The README doc is quite vague - it is more of a personal justification than a rationale (to me).

The issue was triggered by someone executing a benchmark on http crates and opening an issue on github, that was then deleted after some heated back and forth.

https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/epoloy/ive_smoketeste...

From the maintainer point of view, it seemed to have been the straw that broke the camel back, but I don't know the whole background.

Still seems like a sad story