Is this project abandoned?

[Jason R. Coombs]

Looking at the history for this project, I see it was last updated in 2016 and the merge request from 2019 (https://code.launchpad.net/~hlaf/mockproc/windows_support/+merge/376476) has gone unaddressed.

If there's no intention to maintain this project, would you be willing to hand off maintenance to someone else?

[Mike C. Fletcher (mcfletch)]

Sorry, is there something specific needing to be done?

I use MockProc in a number of our test suites, particularly for older projects, but I don't really change anything in the project these days. WRT Windows support, the referenced pull request doesn't seem appropriate... the generation of the executable seems very heavyweight to be running it in unit tests. Using PATHEXT and appending an extension to the script would seem less intrusive.

[Jason R. Coombs (jaraco)]

Hey Mike. Thanks for getting back!

> Sorry, is there something specific needing to be done?

I thought it was obvious. I'd start by responding to the bug reports. Besides this one, there are two:

- https://bugs.launchpad.net/mockproc/+bug/1454826
- https://bugs.launchpad.net/mockproc/+bug/2029023

Same goes for the merge request.

I would have submitted a merge request for bug/2029023, but I saw the previous merge request was languishing, so I didn't want to bother proposing a fix if the project was abandoned.

> I don't really change anything in the project these days.

That's perfectly fine. If you'd rather someone fork the project than take over maintenance, that's certainly an option. I thought it would be nice for continuity to keep the current package up-to-date.

> WRT Windows support [in the pull request]...

I'm not particular about the solution, but I was hoping to use MockProc on a project that's tested on Windows (since I [test my projects on Windows as a matter of course](https://github.com/jaraco/skeleton/blob/0484daa8a6f72c9ad4e1784f9181c2488a191d8e/.github/workflows/main.yml#L26-L33)). Currently, the [mockproc tests are disabled on Windows](https://github.com/jaraco/jaraco.home/blob/bb5a667230cac541a9fbfc4c4b105b87508c5697/conftest.py#L8-L10) due to the limitation.

I could file a bug about wanting Windows support, but I'd probably not bother if I know the project has been frozen.