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Maintenance status?

I am opening this issue to discuss the maintenance status of passlib!

(please note that I am also myself an open-source maintainer and I don't feel entitled to anything here, just trying to share some useful info & concerns).

I am a newcomer to passlib and only using it via Ansible, because it is required by default on Mac if one uses Ansible:

https://github.com/ansible/ansible/blob/f22231de203450128dbfcd3277799d759d861abd/lib/ansible/utils/encrypt.py#L94-L95

EDIT: ⚠️ soon all users Ansible will likely rely on passlib (see https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/81949#issuecomment-1766693535).

I am a bit concerned about its maintenance status, due to various hints:

  • the last public release was done 3 years ago
  • no recent commits

And also issues like:

The fact that it is used in Ansible (something largely used) is also a concern!

It took me a bit of time to find the right place where discussion still occur (via this comment).

Is @eli-collins still maintaining the library? Has someone taken over?

Happy to help out, by the way.

Thanks!

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Please comment or edit so that we can measure the impact!

Edited by Thibaut Barrère
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