Project unmaintained

[pickfire]

@svartalf I believe the project needs another maintainer since the issues and pull requests have no one to tend to them. Probably would be good if there are other people to help maintain actions-rs, like outdated template (v2 instead of v3).

Not sure if author will reply here, so I will email him.

[smallstepman]

I tried contacting @svartalf via email from his GH profile on June 16th, however, haven't heard from him back.

Given his last contribution to actions-rs was in Nov 2020, I think the best course of action would be to fork the entire organization.

Personally, I'd love to see this go under the https://github.com/rust-unofficial umbrella since such a move makes it less likely for the project to go stale again, or even (ideally) https://github.com/orgs/rust-lang/repositories?q=action ... Perhaps we could try to ping someone from rust-lang, I saw @steveklabnik showing interest in one of the PRs here some time ago - maybe you could help us get the ball rolling? Having GHActions run officially by the organization mitigates a bunch of security risks...

Otherwise, we can create a new organization. Not gonna lie, actions-rs is I think a fantastic name, but maybe we can come up with something as good.

[pickfire]

If any, I think https://github.com/actions/setup-rust is the best since most other popular languages are there.

[smallstepman]

that would also be fantastic! do you know how to get in?

[pickfire]

Not sure, but seemed like they stopped accepting new workflows. actions/starter-workflows#631

[steveklabnik]

I am no longer affiliated with the Rust Project, so if you're looking for an official fork, I can't be of help, sadly.

If any, I think https://github.com/actions/setup-rust is the best since most other popular languages are there.

By the way, this 404s for me...

[pickfire]

By the way, this 404s for me...

Yes, it's 404. I suggested that but don't have access to actions organization.

[smallstepman]

Fork? Or we try other ideas?

[dralley]

Let's not fork until we have an idea of where it would go at the very least. Meaning an official organization if at all possible.

It is also possible that @svartalf may eventually respond and be willing to add new maintainers to the existing organization.

[dralley]

It is also possible that @svartalf may eventually respond and be willing to add new maintainers to the existing organization.

Such as perhaps @dtolnay? https://github.com/dtolnay/rust-toolchain

[sondr3]

From the reddit thread and here it looks to me like the most likely way forward is either to essentially fork the entire organization or start anew but make sure that the bus factor is greater than one. Would it be possible to perhaps create an action in rust-lang-nursery with the possibility of moving it to the rust-lang repo proper like haskell/actions / deno-land/setup-deno? I realize that this requires a fair amount of trust, but it is in my opinion the best option.

As an aside, something I really like with for example setup-node is that it has built-in caching so no messing about with action/cache, so maybe include @Swatinem in the conversation since he has written a great Rust caching action.