Project maintenance about helm

[mtytel]

Given my work on Vital and other plugins I don't really have time to maintain or work on Helm anymore.
I'm open to the idea of someone taking over maintenance but I don't really have time to bring someone up to speed myself.

[BilldarBagdar]

Hi everyone,

Had I been a more practical or jaded-by-hard-experience person, I might have checked the maintenance status of this Helm project before cloning the repo and attempting to build for myself.

I just wanted to avoid dealing with PayPal (even for $0). So instead I cloned the repo, updated the projucer project to JUCE 7.0.2 (development), and added a Visual Studio 2022 exporter. Then, I fixed errors (not deprecation warnings) in the source code until I got a successful Helm_VST3 build and could test the fixes in the Juce Plugin Host.

I still have further testing to perform in my actual DAW computer(s), but I was checking in here thinking about possibly contributing "work product" if it passes code review when I discovered the sad state of affairs represented by this lack-of-project-maintenance thread.

Are there any active Helm forks these days?

@mtytel Have you appointed a maintainer who isn't you since you said you were open to the idea of another maintainer last year?

[tpltnt]

@mtytel if you want I can start doing some maintenance work (and try to implement a MIDI feature I want). To to this I need the right to push code to this repository (to avoid the unnecessary fork as @unfa pointed out). This way maybe at least some things get adjusted and you keep (full) control for now. Later we may transfer ownership if it works out.

[hellocatfood]

@BilldarBagdar Useful Forks shows that this fork by @DatanoiseTV is the most active fork https://github.com/DatanoiseTV/helm . Might be worth forking or contributing to that

[santiagofn]

Probably the maintainer isn't reading Github issues. The only way around I see is forking the project (if there's anyone with the motivation to do it).

[unfa]

I think forking would be unnecesary and counterproductive here. The repository's ownership can be transferred if @mtytel no longer wants to maintain this project and someone else volunteers to take over.