Need help?

[tldev]

Hi @januszm - I'll be updating a monolithic app from Rails 4.1 to 4.2 and eventually all the way to Rails 5. The app makes heavy use of this gem, so I'll begin helping with contributions to nudge this thing in that direction. Looks like a lot of people have already started! I noticed you've mentioned on a number of the threads that you don't have as much time lately. Would you like me to step in as a maintainer? I've been developing Ruby software in Rails for five years now, so I'm happy to lend support.

Best,
Tom Johnell

[januszm]

Hi @tldev , of course! I'm happy to add new collaborators. I can assist in the beginning of this process. Please, start a pull request.

[januszm]

@tldev could you tell me more about your plans and timeline?

Do you plan to upgrade to 5.2 right away or to first deal with intermediate versions? It seems to me that it only makes sense now to start working on versions 5.2 and 6.0. We can skip 5.1 and 5.0, they are old, not supported, and we should not even encourage other teams to stay with these versions.

I may be able to deal with version 6.0 soon.

[BuonOmo]

Hi @januszm @tldev.

@keithdoggett are current maintainer of the RGeo core project, as well as most of its dependencies. We were wondering about the state of this project. Do you think it still gets any usage? And are you still considering maintaining it?

I'm already archiving the https://github.com/rgeo/activerecord-mysqlspatial-adapter

[januszm]

Hi @BuonOmo

According to ruby-toolbox, this project still has downloads, but it probably only applies to old projects in Rails <5. I haven't used this gem for several years, hence no activity on my end, I switched to PostgreSQL with PostGIS.
I am happy to pass the maintenance on to other people or accept any new PR that adds support for newer Rails like 6, 7.

It is worth noting, however, that in the meantime a competing project was created: https://github.com/stadia/activerecord-mysql2rgeo-adapter it provides similar functionality, so I do not know if it makes sense to spend time on this.

[BuonOmo]

Thanks for all the inputs!

Seeing the comparison on ruby-toolbox, and the fact that none of us will have enough time to maintain this project, or at least, we'd rather focus on other rgeo-* projects. I'd archive this repository, and point to https://github.com/stadia/activerecord-mysql2rgeo-adapter. Both in README and gemspec.

@keithdoggett @januszm is it OK with you?