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[3ter]

Since the last release nearly 3 years ago there have been 0 actual code changes, only translations (v0.9.11...master). Someone needs to go through the PRs and approve or reject them.

Surely someone from the contributors can be dedicated to be a maintainer. Unfortunately I've got no time 😆 . And I haven't been active here at all. I just think the app is a blessing in writing Umlauts on an English keyboard and some other nice stuff (like soon™).

[Solomon1732]

To support your stance, there are some PRs like #459 which are no-brainers to check and accept or reject. Yet the PR in question has been sitting around since late February 2022. Why? It's not the only one in a like state.

[3ter]

@samhocevar I forgot to notify you to make sure you're aware of the topic. Thank you for your consideration.

[Solomon1732]

If he still won't answer any time soon then a would be maintainer may wish to fork the project.

[MartinBonner]

wincompose is not nearly such a popular download as liblzma - but we still need to exercise a modicum of caution if a "helpful" new maintainer comes along.

[Sax388]

Last PR merged by @samhocevar is from 2022-02 (https://github.com/samhocevar/wincompose/commits?author=samhocevar).

I think the community should move on to a fork. Unfortunately there are only two promising ones right now as I can see:

• A very small one containing a nice change though (allowing any compose key except for esc)
• A larger one also containing some dependency updates

Unfortunately the one from @arm32x says in a note at the top that they don't intend to (publicly) maintain the fork.
I don't know if @Elyviere would be interested in taking up the torch.

[Elyviere]

Unfortunately I no longer use wincompose so I'm afraid I won't be maintaining my fork either.

[Solomon1732]

@Elyviere Do you use an alternative or do you use nothing?

[Elyviere]

I use a keyboard with qmk firmware, so I've added all the characters I frequently use in different layers instead. This way I'm not reliant on installing third party software. I do have wincompose bound to a key on that layer as well (which is why I needed my fork, I have weird keys on that layer), for the rare case where I need a weird character, but I go weeks without using wincompose even once at this point.