New maintainer for this project

[GeorgeSapkin]

This is obviously a very popular, useful and important part of Socket.IO which has not been maintained for a while. Has Socket.IO considered appointing a new maintainer? It's a big hassle finding a combination of fixes from all the forks right now.

[shnist]

+1

[jdesboeufs]

+1

[milne-dev]

+1

[sribich]

+1

[japrescott]

+1

[irakliy81]

+1

[aPoCoMiLogin]

+1

[jdesboeufs]

Today an alternative solution is to use https://github.com/primus/primus which is well maintained and provide an interesting abstraction layer, with Redis support (official plugin).

[Bretto]

+1

[robbennet]

+1

[artofspeed]

+1

[buinskii]

+1

[hgcummings]

Any chance of a response on this from the existing maintainers? @rauchg?

If the project could do with some help I'd be happy to volunteer.

[rauchg]

@hgcummings I'm planning a release for the coming week. Apologize for the delay.

[hgcummings]

Thanks for the update @rauchg.

Note that I wasn't just commenting because I'm impatient for a release. The offer still stands if you could use any help in the future.

[jdesboeufs]

Thanks @rauchg.

But I agree with @hgcummings: this project is important for many people, you'd better promote some additional maintainers.

[hgcummings]

@rauchg any update on the release?

[rauchg]

@jdesboeufs @hgcummings would any of you two be down for helping coordinate the next release? I believe this also requires that we push new client and server due to the changes of namespace handling.

[hgcummings]

Hi @rauchg. Yes, I'd be happy to help out. Just let me know what you need.

[ryoqun]

+1

[hgcummings]

@rauchg do you know when you'll be able to spend time on this? Let me know if there's anything I can do to help.