Project websites officially dead!?

[eyecatchup]

After checking back after some while, I noticed that the project website at getfri.es is offline. And two whois searches (.es whois is a bit tricky, thus 2) revealed that the name servers for this domain were changed today (2014/12/02) to *.sedoparking.com. Last but not least, the domain owner was transfered from Fries' author - @jaunesarmiento - to some stranger (at least, as far as related to Fries).

Additionally, when you go to the GitHub project page jaunesarmiento.github.io/fries/, it redirects to jaunesarmiento.me/fries/ - the author's private website. However, this site is also offline.

So, may I ask whether the project is still maintained?

Thanks

[eyecatchup]

PS: For the meantime, for those looking for a live demo, here's one: https://eyecatchup.github.io/fries/ (Note: This is a different tree that I started a while ago (off of 2.0.3), but fixes have been merged from latest master (plus, others were added).)

[jaunesarmiento]

Hi @eyecatchup, I forgot to make a note that I'm no longer maintaining the project. Primary reason is due to Material Design. Anyway, thanks for bringing this up.

[eyecatchup]

First, thanks for the feedback @jaunesarmiento.

Then could you maybe remove the redirect for the GH pages branch to your custom domain, so people can checkout the current state there? Still better than linking into Nirvana, isn't it?

Last but not least, in case you no longer maintain Fries, what would you say if I'll take over? As you may remember I commited some code a while ago for the wip/v2.1.0 branch and added "Multi-Theme-Support" to the demo site. A month ago I started to work on a Material Design based CSS/JS Framework. Now I came back to Fries to see wether I should consider to use Fries as a base (mainly because I liked the simple code base).

Basically I'd like to merge Fries and my project anyways - so to have only one Framework that serves Holo and Material themes. So, if you don't care anymore anyway, I think it would be a good idea to let me take over. I guess the 1000+ Fries users would appreciate as well.

What do you think?

[jaunesarmiento]

Already contacted GitHub regarding the removal of the CNAME. Someone has already squatted over jaunesarmiento.me as well, so I can't remove it manually.

As for merging projects, I can't give the project up that easily just cause I'm not maintaining it anymore. And I'd like to keep it for historical purposes. I hope you understand. You can, however, work on a fork. I'd be more than happy to provide a link to your fork in the README.

[eyecatchup]

Almost got it. Except for what you said about you can't give up on the project. Don't get me wrong, I'm perfectly fine to work with my fork. But it is somewhat in contrast to the updated README.md - which asks for somebody to take over now!? Could you clarify that last bit for me, please? Thanks (again)! :)