rust-lang / rust-lang/ssh2-rs

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Description

I do not personally have time to maintain this crate any more and I suspect the other maintainers are also quite short on time nowadays. I think it's time to put out an "official" call for "this crate is in maintenance mode now". The way I personally view this crate:

  • For ssh2 I think anyone who's interested can pick it up. I'm not going to merge any changes to ssh2 as a crate from now on most likely.
  • For libssh2-sys this is depended on by libgit2-sys which is used by Cargo, so it is a pretty important dependency. I will try to merge bug/security fixes myself but other than that I don't have the time to help improve this.

If you'd like to help maintain this leave a comment here. I'm happy to transfer ssh2 ownership and such without much ado, but for libssh2-sys you'll need to be a relatively trusted member of the Rust community since Cargo depends on it.

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  3. Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
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Research direction

Start with the discussion in issue #228, focusing on the stated maintenance status of ssh2 and the bug/security-fix expectations for libssh2-sys. Done would be an agreed maintenance or ownership plan recorded by maintainers; no code files or tests are identified.

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Assessment

Tech stack
rust
Domain
developer-experience
Issue type
Documentation
Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Needs clarification
Newbie friendliness
20/100

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