Status / getting things moving again

[uros-r]

Hi @bhargavchippada,

As the author, would you mind clarifying whether there is commitment to maintaining ForceAtlas2 from yourself and / or another maintainer?

Some really great work has gone into the project, and those it is derived from. IMHO, it is still the best Python graph layout algorithm around for many situations.

It would be nice to get things updated and re-establish a way of getting PRs in and releases out from time to time. It would be a real shame if the project were to wither away.

Thanks!

[bhargavchippada]

Hi @uros-r,

Thank you for your kind words. I will commit to maintaining ForceAtlas2 by myself and/or other maintainers starting soon this year, seeing the package had a great response. It would be great to have more maintainers so that things can be updated more frequently. I will get things started again.

Thanks!

[uros-r]

That's great, @bhargavchippada, and appreciated. Hopefully it won't need much time, the odd PR / release.

Going by the number of forks, and activity therein, there might be others willing to help out too.

I'm happy to help with making releases a bit easier, if that would be useful. Maybe a GitHub Actions job, and / or a few tests, if we can get the PR that enables deterministic layouts merged (looks like #11 would do it).