Is this an abandoned project?
laurencei opened this issue · 76 comments
Hi,
Is this an abandoned project? There have been no updates for 6 months, including no github activity from @vitalets for any project?
Is there a "fork" that is being actively maintained?
As far as I know, vitalets is working full-time and can only spend spare time to develop this project. Although I agree with you the forking should be maintained regularly so it goes further, the project is free anyways, I got nothing but grateful.
Dont get me wrong - I'm grafeful - the package is amazing.
But there should also be a clear direction for the package, as it is used by a large amount of people. So I just wanted to clarify which direction this is heading...
I totally agree this is a great package and I was also asking me if it was still maintained. Which fork is the most active, should the author pass the baton ?
Based on my quick scan of the Network graph, it doesn't look like there really is a 'most active' fork. They all seem to solve one or two problems and end in a PR against this repo. If anyone is particularly interested in trying to pick up the slack, I would see about sending @vitalets an email. Can't hurt to ask, right?
I agree with you, there is planty of little fix but everybody on his own. You can try to reach @vitalets, but I think he won't answer as he get emails for issues we create on his project.
I'm avaible to help centralizing the project, but I don't have time to take the lead
Hi everyone,
I'm very-very sorry for getting x-editable unsupported for such a long time.
There were some unpredicted circumstances in my life that caused such situation..
Anyway I would like to keep this project alive as there are many people who already using it and there are many amazing things that can be done.
I would appreciate if someone would help. Not spending a lot of time on it (as everyone is busy with own tasks) but if possible just check pull requests and merge. I'll provide any help and full access to the repo. Just let me know via email noginsk@rambler.ru
Thank you!
Hi vitalets, thanks for responding. I am brand new to Angular, just writing my first app now, so I can't be of much help. But I'm sure others will step up, this is such a valuable project. Thanks!
It is such great news that the project will be kept alive and supported. It's a really great project!
Hi @vitalets. I would like to help you maintain this project. It is excellent work and I found it incredibly useful on a recent job.
So have we found a maintainer for this project? Would love to see it supported! I'm willing to volunteer some time as well.
I would like to help also. This project is awesome.
Thanks @assisrafael! Added you as collaborator.
Thank you. I'm looking at the PRs and issues right now.
Any news ?
Hey @nate-strauser, want to help maintain x-editable, since you've published the best Meteor wrapper for it?
i'd be willing to help out with meteor specific integrations
Checking the network graph, it looks like someone has taken the liberty of merging some useful PRs into the dev branch in their fork.
This is the most "advanced" fork I have been able to find and I would strongly recommend we include him/her and some others as collaborators to keep this going.
Really, did not find the new maintainer?
I just came across this project and I am super impressed with the amount of work invested here! It's like the same projects was built for all these libraries and then a ton of t tests build and docs...this project should never die! I am about to use it on a Project Management application as it is simply PERFECT for that type of app, thanks for all the great work and I truly hope this project lives on for years to come!
Did this project ever find a new maintainer? @geding @assisrafael ??
I am not a javascript programmer but have found a few bugs to help report.
@vitalets you should provide a donation link or some sort of low-end licensing, ie. $20-40 a license or related. I think this is a very valuable project and one that I was hoping to integrate into my application, but if unsupported it greatly falls by the wayside. If money is an issue I am sure allot of people, myself included, would donate/purchase a license for comfort of continued support
What are your thoughts group?
TBH this project is important enough I would pay an annual fee for consistent updates. $50 to me makes sense.
I would also pay to keep this going. I believe that applies to anyone capable of taking on the task really! If I was good enough in JavaScript, I could sell support for helping people with this library, just the way people sell there service to help with WordPress, Magento, SugarCRM, etc...
Of course the author of this project knows it best. However on the Readme he has posted this notice...
Project status
Unfortunately, project is currently frozen, as I don't have enough time for it. You could try use it as is, but there may be some bugs with newer versions of dependend libraries (e.g. bootstrap). I would really appreciate if someone take care of it.. See #610. Vitalets.
I would love to pay someone to keep things updated and going though
@kingharrison @kjakah08 @tonglil @chall8908 @dandv and all others...I have made a quick blog post highlighting some of the features of X-Editable and requesting for someone (JavaScript Expert) to step up to the plate and help update/maintain this project. There has been no updates to code in over 2 years according to this repos last update date. There was a recent update of the Readme to add in that the project is abandoned but actual code update is 2 years now which is sad.
There are thousands of people using this project and I do not want to site on the sideline and watch it die. There really is no other competitor library that is even half as good so for that reason alone it should live on!
Please share my article on your social media to help get the word out http://www.codedevelopr.com/articles/community-looking-for-expert-javascript-developer-to-update-x-editable-jquery-library-project/ also if you would like to add or chamnge the content of my article, I am all ears. I just want to get this project going again.
Majority of the recent issues are posted about Select2 support and I personally am having all sorts of nightmare with X-Editable and Select2 so I would love to get that working properly again too.
As some have mentioned, they would be willing to pay some money to keep this project going. I agree with that and I am certain that hundreds of others would contribute if they knew they could.
So hopefully the right person or persons (people) will see our plea to get this going again.
To start helping now, I think spreading this article is the first step in finding the right people to help with our project. Thanks and feel free to give your input.
I'm already overloaded with side projects of my own but I'm supporting this, tweeted your article.
@leob great thanks for your support. If we could somehow get X-Editable updated to work with Select2 v4 it would solve majority of the recent posted issues. It would be nice if it;s really just a few simple modifications but I can't tell at this point
You're welcome, this was my most popular post on Twitter ever, gained me 2 new followers! incredible response, sure that says something, this library is indeed important to a lot of people.
So the most pressing issues are when you combine it with this library right?
https://github.com/fk/select2-bootstrap-theme
I have totally no idea how difficult it would be to fix it, if I have a spare hour (or two) I could have a look at the issues but I doubt that would get me very far.
(I have to say that after researching the alternatives I'm not really interested in using the library myself anymore at this point, I more or less decided to go for a more limited but simpler "in place editing" solution which integrates well with Ruby on Rails: https://github.com/bernat/best_in_place)
For anyone looking to use Select2 4.0.0 with x-editable, it is possible. There are a few "glitches" you have to work around, mostly revolving around deprecated options, but it can be made to work.
I've covered some of those glitches (with fixes) in this Stack Overflow answer.
This is something I might invest some time in fixing (if I find some spare time).
@kevin-brown thanks for the contribution I look forward to playing with it
@kevin-brown Hey Kevin, you seem to know a bit about Select2 v4 so I wanted to ask if you by chance have had a chance to get any sort of X-Editable + Select2 integration working with Select2 custom templates? That seems to be the main thing that I have not found anyone succeed with yet and all my attempt have failed.
My end goal is I need to pull a list of users from the server and show there thumbnail avatar image + name in the Select2 selection.
At this point I don't even care if I can't get the X-Editable + Select2 integration to load the list of users from the server with AJAX as I can easily do that separately and then feed the list to Select2 as an array or object.
I have seen people get Select2 to work with a custom template to show thumbnail image + name of item but not while integrating with X-Editable.
I'm about to the point where I am going to have to just roll my own custom solution and not use X-Editable to build this user list but I wanted to ask you if you;ve had any experiences with it before giving up on it!
Facebook is a good example of what I am trying to do:
Appreciate any feedback
Following this conversation. I just started using X-editable with Bootstrap and, overall, I love it. However, the two main issues for me are (A) the problems with X-editable working well with Bootstrap's media-queries (for responsive design) when resizing a page (labels wrap incorrectly around input fields), and (B) the inability to adjust the size of inline editable fields, especially textareas.
If anyone at least has solutions to those two areas, I'd LOVE to hear from you. And, I'd also be willing to contribute some development time to keep this project alive.
You should be able to size your elements with e-style. Not sure about textareas but I don't see why it wouldn't work.
@stillnet I've tried e-style and it has no effect.
I've used e-style successfully, you might want to code up a simple page using it and work from there. Probably a CSS conflict.
Here is a jsFiddle with a snippet that shows the results I am seeing trying to use e-style on both a text field and a textarea field. Any advice is welcome.
Ah, you are using the editable bootstrap library, I am using angular-xeditable, by the same author. https://github.com/vitalets/angular-xeditable
Oh, I see. So those e-* tags pertain to that angular-xeditable only, I presume? :)
@lorenscott @stillnet Would be great if you'd discuss this not here. I subbed the issue to be updated about the project's state. Thanks in advance.
@vitalets I really love this work and i would like to become a collaborator so that i can make changes and accept PRs and fix issues.
please let me know, if you can add me as collaborator.
I really need this project for myself and you can see lots of love for this project in this thread.
Thanks for quick response,
I will work on PRs first.
You are welcome. Great thanks for your support!
I see lots of outstanding PRs. We all get busy, I understand. I've begun to use this with Bootstrap 4 alpha 3 with great success. I just don't want to see such a fabulous project lose traction.
I am not accepting old PRs because i am not sure whether they are perfect or not and many times PR creator not answering my questions... may be they are not using x-editables or github anymore
How's the progress coming along? I was looking around for a solution for front end editing, writing my own would be fine, but x-editable meets pretty much every requirement, is the project still frozen as the readme states?
I've seen http://createjs.org/ as an alternative, despite being good, it also looks like it is not being maintained, are there any alternatives that give what x-editable does?
As a user and developer for a project using x-editable and BS4 alpha, I
second a branch for bootstrap 4. It currently is working fine in my
environment without any changes, but I'm not really using many BS4 specific
features on the pages relevant to x-editable yet.
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#610 (comment)
@ceesco53 I wasn't going to bring up BS4, as it is still in Alpha, however from looking at the templates, the only thing that should need altering is the class names for the input fields as I'm pretty sure some have changed, for instance the Default class
Tweaking input-lg and a few of the old button classes.
Despite that, you say it worked out the box? So you're just using the bs3 template with alpha 4?
bs4 adds more sizes but doesn't deprecate any existing classes so it should work out of box.
I can say its maintained but currently i am not adding anything to it,
fairly depending on PRs and looking at codebase,
once i get good grip on it, i can make updates.
and, we are open for PRs if anyone want to make it better
cheers, thanks for the update.
I just noticed that this project seems to be unmaintained, so I took the liberty of forking it & will continue development here: https://github.com/x-editable/x-editable
Pull Requests & Collaborators welcome!
@MarQuisKnox That great!
Also I can make your admin of this repo to have single place of development and not confuse people.
Thanks, @vitalets! If I have Admin rights, then we can later redirect this repo to the current one.
Details: https://github.com/blog/1508-repository-redirects-are-here
Looking forward to it.
Thanks!
@vitalets: I joined the project, but I don't have rights to transfer it: https://help.github.com/articles/transferring-a-repository-owned-by-your-personal-account
Do you want to transfer or leave it here for historical purposes?
IMHO you do some progress first then you can think of moving to that new location.
moving to a new location doesn't serve any purpose if we are not adding anything new.
agree with @lorvent.
Also there are many links to original repo, and although GitHub makes redirect it will be confusing for users.
Well, the code already is in thousands of other locations. Check the fork stats.
So, development will continue here & the other repo will simply be a mirror. No big deal.
I will close this ticket, as this project is not abandoned or unmaintained as of now.
Hi @MarQuisKnox ! Are you still have time for maintaining x-editable?
I can also help to maintain it - we actively using x-editable in our warehouse management system but didn't make any PR here for a long time.
@tasselchof It would be very helpful!
Could you select some top urgent PRs from your point that we can release as 1.6.0?
Then I think we can share efforts for reviewing. I'll try to find time for that.
@vitalets: Unfortunately, due to work commitments I no longer have time to support this project. Thanks.
@MarQuisKnox ok. Anyway thanks for all your support!
@MarQuisKnox If you are no longer going to support and maintain this project, have you considered giving it to someone else who will? There are even people commenting here saying they would help. There are currently 36 pull requests (some of them 2 years old) and people who seem to be trying to help, it only makes sense to let people help and not completely abandon a plugin many people use. Better to let the plugin live on instead of turning into something people will fork and bastardize. Just my two cents.
You might also want to note that this is not actively being worked on as you say it is in the README.
Any updates on this? Feels like such a shame to abandon a project that is being used this much. I couldn't find any similar projects to use either :(
@MarQuisKnox If you are no longer going to support and maintain this project, have you considered giving it to someone else who will? There are even people commenting here saying they would help. There are currently 36 pull requests (some of them 2 years old) and people who seem to be trying to help, it only makes sense to let people help and not completely abandon a plugin many people use. Better to let the plugin live on instead of turning into something people will fork and bastardize. Just my two cents.
If anyone wants to step up as a maintainer all they need to do is fork it and start applying relevant pull requests then mention here that there is a "new shiny" fork somewhere else. That's the beauty of open source.
Being a maintainer is a big undertaking however, and not many people are cut out for it. I don't have the time nor experience to do it myself either. Even though I love the project itself.
@vitalets You maybe should to pin this issue (or add a more explicit message in the README) to more easily find maintainers.
@vitalets let's be real here, this project have 6k+ stars and 500 issues open. Just starting a new fork and starting from scratch won't work.
That said, would you be willing to move this project into an Organization so at least it could keep its history and have a more maintained repo?
Next we need to find 2-3 maintainers, clean up the issues, and merge some PRs.
We're currently using https://github.com/haught/x-editable-bs4 for xEditable on bootrstrap 4 and it works fine and was mainly inspired by https://github.com/Talv/x-editable.
So maybe @Talv or @haught would be interested maintaining this lib ?
I no longer maintain or use any project that would take use of this. So I'm not interested in this.
Also I feel like there's no demand to develop this any further. The web technology is moving too fast, due to this, I'd rather consider the project complete, although yeah it should be done more officially, rather than keeping the repo as is, which potentially is miss leading users.
If I were the owner, I'd archive it and before that I'd merge the existing Bootstrap4 forks, and potentially release them as dev or something (I don't remember if this library is published in any registry), or at least pull the build artifacts/compiled files (css/js) into the repo, so whoever is still depending on this plugin, can simply download these without having to clone the repo and running various tasks that depend on some deprecated libraries / nodejs / whatever else.
10 years later, I find myself receiving a notification about activity on this issue. How time flies by...
For those of you who are struggling to implement it on Bootstrap 4, maybe this can help.
For Bootstrap 4 its work, check this #1189 (comment)
@ilramdhan thanks for that!
Note: Please fix the url in all your comments. There is invalid markdown:
[https://github.com/vitalets/x-editable/issues/1189#issue-2472436889](url)
It should be just url:
https://github.com/vitalets/x-editable/issues/1189#issue-2472436889
The output: #1189 (comment)