Still maintained? about adr-tools

[ms-ati]

@sata @edibopp Happy Holidays 2020! If either of you do get a maintained fork of adr-tools going, would you be so kind as to post a link to it here?

[milibopp]

Here's the PR for that: NixOS/nixpkgs#57901

I am beginning to consider a fork.

[pboling]

I was about to start using this tool. Would love to see more momentum around it! 💯 I wish I had time to contribute to it, but my cup overfloweth already.

[sata]

@edibopp Yes, I'm hoping to have some time for it during Christmas holidays :)

[pboling]

@keremciu it looks great! thanks

[keremciu]

you're welcome @pboling we use it at my company for long time, hopefully it can get better with more people adapting in their workflow and give feedback :) ✨

[chriscoffee]

I realise there's been little response here but would you like help maintaining this @npryce? I would be happy to help directly rather than just openly fork it.

[casidiablo]

Would be nice to have this in NixOS 👍

[jonathanjouty]

@edibopp do you use another tool as an alternative?

[milibopp]

@jonathanjouty no, I still have this tool installed, although I do not have an immediate need for ADRs at the moment. If there were at least one other person to help out, i would be willing to maintain a fork, as it is a nice tool and would be a shame to die off due to lack of maintenance – especially considering the tiny size of the codebase.

It is still some work to familiarize yourself with the code, go through all the past issues and pull requests, see what's relevant and take action. It can be done incrementally, of course. The next problem is discoverability. Most people likely find this tool through the 2011 blog post that points here, and forking may loose them.

I am still hopeful for @npryce-springer @npryce to show up at some point and look for a new maintainer or co-maintainer, if nothing else.

All that being said: adopting this tool is very low risk, as it is only a minor convenience tool over manually editing text files. You can easily adopt the ADR format without depending on the command line tool.

Another alternative would be to keep the format and rewrite the tool from scratch for fun ;)

[sata]

@edibopp I'm keen. I've introduced the usage of ADRs in one system that I maintain at work.

I've pinged @npryce on Twitter as he seems active there.

[sata]

...no response, I'll be writing a adr-tools clone for our team needs.

[milibopp]

@sata do you intend to open-source it?

[keremciu]

heyya! I created a tool which doesn't require to be installed, you can run it wherever you have nodejs installed. https://github.com/keremciu/adr-tool

[ogborstad]

@sata how did your clone end up? dead or open soured? :)

[sata]

@sata how did your clone end up? dead or open soured? :)

I would say unfortunately dead.. I've got something but it's nothing I'm ready to share... But thanks for reminding me, it's something I do want to work on!

It was easier to wrap it in a Docker image or having people installing it via brew/asdf than to write a new one.. Perhaps one day it will happen :)

[keremciu]

I can recommend trying my type-safe cli, it's super easy to try. I use it for long time and I welcome future ideas :)

npx adr-tool init

[XedinUnknown]

Bump. Still maintained?

[XedinUnknown]

About Docker: you can find an image that claims to have everything installed here. I had to override some values like entrypoint and working_dir in my docker-compose.yml, but otherwise looks like it's good.
https://github.com/rdhaliwal/adr-tools-docker