Keep RxBluetoothKit Alive

[fraune]

It appears that Polidea/RxBluetoothKit has not reviewed or merged any Pull Requests since 2020.

I would like to help keep this library alive. Could someone with the appropriate access help by doing one or more of the following?

• Become active in engaging with the community again
• Grant me permission to review/accept Pull Requests
• Transfer ownership of the library to a willing maintainer

I would love to hear thoughts and ideas around this, since there is not another Bluetooth library for RxSwift of this size and reliability.

Cross-posted on the RxBluetoothKit Glitter.

Tagging anyone that GitHub says is on the Polidea team
@adam-stasiak @agatapst @jakublipinski @kkucharc @literator @potiuk @slawomir-andrian

[potiuk]

Poliidea has been acquired and unless some individuals want to keep it running, I think best approach is to fork it and develop on your own. The Apache licence allows it, you can fork it and release/develop on your own. I think there is no need to transfer ownership.

[fraune]

My concern is that there are already 300 forks of this repo, and I believe most are for adding a feature or fixing a bug that specifically affects an individual or single team. As time goes on, it will become more difficult to source great code from many individuals across many forks.

[potiuk]

I think its up to you to make one that will be the main one. I don't think there is anyone who can transfer ownership to you officially, so you need to make sure to build enouhg of value yourself to make it the "main" fork.

[potiuk]

BTW. You can start with gathering those 300 repos and bringing their fixes into your fork and ask them to switch to yours. That's what I'd do if I wanted to provide value for others.

[fraune]

I understand. I've never attempted something like that before, but I think it may be worth the effort. Thanks for your perspective and for letting me know that this repo probably won't receive any more updates.

[jberkhei]

I'd be interested in helping keep this alive.

[Serg-Pogrebnyak]

Some time ago I tried to do something the same, I found info that Polidea was redeemed by another company - Snowflake, and I wrote them and asked to move this repo to open source. I wrote an email to them, tried to make an account on their website, and submitted a technical request, but I had no luck. Maybe if someone contacts them via Linkedin or located in Poland and can call them and tell them about this problem - it would be perfect. But after one and half years no updates about this from my end...

[uKL]

The Android counterpart has been moved to the maintainer private github. Maybe there is hope? @dariuszseweryn

[dariuszseweryn]

I will check what could be done