As one of the creators of a distributed package manager for C++ and friends [1] we made a funny discovery:
Many C libraries that a big chunk of the ecosystem depends on, have not been updated for many years. Some of those can only be downloaded from sourceforge or ftp server.
Even worse, some libraries are copy and pasted from project to project and have no actual home.
We uploaded them to github and started maintaining them.
If you know any abandoned C/C++ projects or C/C++ projects you need a hand in maintaining, we are happy to help.
It's by design, as a test that the maintainers have read the instructions and told us a bit about themselves and what they like, as well as just getting to know them. It generally works well, I think, except in this specific case where the meeting was done out-of-band.
As one of the creators of a distributed package manager for C++ and friends [1] we made a funny discovery:
Many C libraries that a big chunk of the ecosystem depends on, have not been updated for many years. Some of those can only be downloaded from sourceforge or ftp server.
Even worse, some libraries are copy and pasted from project to project and have no actual home.
We uploaded them to github and started maintaining them.
If you know any abandoned C/C++ projects or C/C++ projects you need a hand in maintaining, we are happy to help.
[1] https://github.com/loopperfect/buckaroo