repo not maintained, can someone suggest another?

[m50S79sM6SRNp8Jn]

[marcusreese]

https://github.com/collight/dns-sd just rewrote bonjour-service and seems interested in maintaining

[diff3usion]

I am the former owner of the GitHub account @collight, under which I developed the dns-sd library as a rewrite of this library. Recently, my GitHub account was suspended without explanation, resulting in the removal of all my repos including the https://github.com/collight/dns-sd repository.

Reflecting on this situation, I suspect that the suspension may be related to a report concerning one of my repositories. Given that my other repositories are for personal use, it seems plausible that this issue pertains to the dns-sd library. I noticed recent activity on this bonjour-service repository after a period of inactivity, which prompted me to reach out.

@mdidon I would like to respectfully ask if you have any connection to the suspension of my account. I acknowledge that I have no concrete evidence, and I hope this inquiry is not perceived as discourteous. If you confirm that you are not involved, I will accept your response, and this matter will be closed.

If, however, someone did report the dns-sd repository, leading to my account’s suspension, I feel compelled to address this incident. Such an action would represent a significant departure from the principles of open-source collaboration and reflect poorly on GitHub’s processes. My dns-sd library clearly acknowledges prior work and adheres strictly to the MIT license. There should be no grounds for targeting a fork intended to maintain and improve an under-maintained project. Should someone have initiated such a report, their integrity should be seriously doubted.

Recent reports of internal challenges at GitHub may have contributed to this situation, and this experience has significantly diminished my trust in the platform. I'll continue publishing my work on other platforms like GitLab.

[diff3usion]

@marcusreese If you're still interested in the dns-sd library, please visit https://gitlab.com/collight/dns-sd
Your issue is lost though. I'm sorry for the inconvenience.

[mdidon]

@diff3usion Hey, I can confirm no action was taken by me. We've been super busy so I've been unable to dedicate the time to reviewing the PRs here.

I started putting some time in yesterday to get a release ready as I had some free time and would have ultimately recommended your dns-sd repo along with @homebridge/ciao
to @m50S79sM6SRNp8Jn as alternatives.

I've been trying to a plan a v2 version of this repo as we use it internally and still have a few issues that were inherited from the original repo. If you're interested, it maybe worth a chat to see what can be brought over from your repo for this v2.

[diff3usion]

Hi @mdidon,

I’m glad to hear you’re not involved, and I apologize for bringing you into this matter.

It’s great to see that you’ve started picking up maintenance of this repo. If you have the time, you might want to take a look at the dns-sd repo, which mainly focuses on strong typing and improving the development workflow. It could be useful for the V2 update of this library.

I’ll continue working on my fork, but since it will no longer be on GitHub, it may not get much public exposure. I believe people will continue to rely on this repo and look forward to your V2 update.

Once again, huge thanks for your work!

[mdidon]

@diff3usion Not a problem and will do.

If you have any further thoughts for v2, drop them in the #66 issue. I'll be sure to include you in the contributors regardless.

[marcusreese]

@diff3usion So sorry to hear your account and repos were lost without explanation! That must be so frustrating!

I honestly have no idea why myself. I also wonder how much immature AI is involved these days.

What I hear from you is frustration and sadness (justified) and also patient perseverance and kindness (awesome).

Thanks @mdidon also for your kindness here! I am hopeful that you can accept PRs from @diff3usion and/or allow @diff3usion to review and accept PRs.

As for my lost issue from the closed repo, I debated whether I should open an issue on gitlab.com, but @diff3usion said "since it will no longer be on GitHub, it may not get much public exposure," so I went ahead and restarted the discussion here: #70. If that's not the best, please let me know what I should do next.

[Julusian]

@diff3usion My guess at what happened would be that issue 1 you opened on the dns-sd repository and tagged ~12 other users. Maybe one of them reported it as spam, or maybe it got detected by the system as spam automatically.
I dont know if it was a pretty new account or not, but if it was new than that would nudge the auto-spam detection to think it was.

I am maintaining a minimal fork of this library for myself for now https://github.com/Julusian/bonjour-service. Largely because I have a few open PRs here that I needed, as well as a few other fixes that I dont think I contributed (because my existing PRs hadnt been looked at). Im not promising it to live forever and it likely wont be be very active, but it will likely be looked after well enough for my needs (and that of my libraries/apps that make use of it. eg https://github.com/julusian/node-elgato-stream-deck).