Is django-extensions still maintained?

[Bruno Alla]

Hello,

It seems that the GitHub repo has been dormant for a few months now (no commits, response on pull request or issues), and the project starts to lag behind with the ecosystem. As the project provides Django integration with several other libraries (notebook, Werkzeug, watchdog, ...), it seems important to keep on top of the moving ecosystem, and I've seen a few of these starting to break down as django-extensions is not being updated accordingly.

I totally get it if the current maintainers are done with the project, I'm opening this discussion to see if my perceptions are indeed correct, and what we can do as a community to help. Django-extensions provides IMO some super helpful tools, and it would be a shame to see this project get abandoned. Is there any interest to add some new maintainers to the project? Or transfer the project to a new organsation like django-commons?

While I care very much about some parts of the project, I've perhaps used 20% of the features, and -if I'm being honest- I find the feature set quite intimidating to volunteer as matainer. I don't know if others feel the same.

Another alternative to keep the tools going might be to extract them into smaller standalone Django packages.

How do people feel about that?