On Tue, Jun 10, 2025 at 09:02:37AM -0700, Bakul Shah wrote: > On Jun 10, 2025, at 8:40???AM, Gleb Popov <arr...@freebsd.org> wrote: > > > > On Mon, Jun 9, 2025 at 11:08???PM Minsoo Choo <minsoochoo0...@proton.me> > > wrote: > >> > >> As of June 2, 2025, jemalloc repository on Github has been archived. [1] > > > > Is there any explanation why it got archived? It feels surprising as I > > recently heard news that Qt added some code to take advantage of > > jemalloc-specific functions. > > From https://x.com/nateberkopec/status/1930010446410723533 & followups: > > jemalloc mystery resolved: jemalloc has moved to the official Facebook github > organization > > context: for the last 2+ years the primary maintainers of jemalloc have been > FB employees. this just formalizes Evans' stepping off the project. > > jemalloc???s not dead ! The Meta fork is the new home, ???still actively > developing here??? but issues now have to go in discussions > https://github.com/facebook/jemalloc/discussions/7#discussioncomment-13394532 > > Contributor commit info shows pretty abrupt handoff from Jason Evans to Qi > Wang (interwq) and David Goldblatt in 2017, so I presume this ???small > team??? was primarily these 2. Note Qi Wang???s contributions tapering off, > David stopped post-pandemic: LinkedIn says he left Meta in 2024
It's been maintained by Facebook forever so that's not a change. Why not move the repo or break the fork so issues work? This feels like flailing around without understanding how github works and does not inspire confidence. -- Brooks
