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Future plans on the lib #354
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Hi.
Do you have any plans on improving pendulum? At least by merging viable PRs.
Or maybe there's a chance we'll have collaborator who is interested in maintaining it?
I love pendulum and was really happy about 1.x version, but after new major release several things are broken and lib status is neither alpha nor stable. It's somewhere in between. :)
Please, give us some feedback about pendulum's future.
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[-]Future plans of the lib[/-][+]Future plans on the lib[/+]mtvx commentedon Feb 28, 2020
Also curious about the future of the library. I originally betted on pendulum to win the race over arrow, but looking at the projects now,
pendulumseems stale (few commits during last ~1.5 years, tickets without activity, lot of open PRs) and arrow is enjoying sunshine (constant flow of commits, 3x contributors, less tickets open, ~0 PRs open).This is, of course, not criticism of the author, who has done awesome job providing the library. But what sort of future does @sdispater see for it?
sdispater commentedon Feb 29, 2020
The library is not abandoned in any way but poetry is taking most of my limited time currently.
I also have some new features in mind that I will try to implement in the coming weeks.
That being said, since I can't give my full attention to the library, I will try to onboard new maintainers to help with its maintenance and evolution.
So if anyone is interested in helping out with that, please let me know :-)
brian-tran-dev commentedon Jun 24, 2021
Will there be an update on this repo?
brian-tran-dev commentedon Jul 18, 2021
I think the library is going in the right direction but it needs to be more active. If finance is a problem, how about creating Patreon and discord?
karolzlot commentedon Oct 19, 2021
@sdispater
@tpakhoa1996
pendulummodule was at the time important step in improving handling datetimes in python, however I wonder if it is currently giving any advantage compared toarrow?See this PR: #556
sdispater commentedon Oct 19, 2021
@karolzlot The next major version is being worked on (see #569) and will feature a redesign and a lot of improvements.
While Arrow has indeed picked up the pace around DST handling and parsing, Pendulum still provides a more intuitive API and is still a drop-in replacement for, and with a lot of improvements over, the standard library, which Arrow is not.
spacemanspiff2007 commentedon Nov 1, 2021
There are critical issues e.g. where users have been unable to install pendulum (see #504) which have not been fixed since in over a year.
I understand that time is limited but when there is nobody else that can/does work on pendulum it is indeed abandon ware.
There are definitely some people who would want to join in as maintainers, so maybe that would get development started again.
sdispater commentedon Dec 13, 2021
@spacemanspiff2007 I created an issue to add more maintainers to the project: #590
If anyone is interested in helping out with the project, write a comment in #590 to say so. Thank you 🙏
sdispater commentedon Dec 8, 2022
The first prerelease of the next version (
3.0) is now available for testing: https://github.com/sdispater/pendulum/releases/tag/3.0.0a1anderssonjohan commentedon Mar 8, 2023
@sdispater Great job! We're currently moving everything to latest poetry from 1.0.10 and python 3.11 but are struggling a bit without prebuilt 3.11 wheels for pendulum 2.x. Is there a chance you can backport the build or just do a manual upload of a 3.11 wheel for 2.1.2? 🙏
We would rather not publish our own pendulum 2.1.2 wheel on a private index, because I suspect we'll get an "Invalid hash" issue with poetry the day an official wheel is published. Also, it would save build minutes on a "global" scale if there were official 3.11 wheels for the latest release now that many are moving to that version. :)
I fully understand if you are busy with other things, no worries if you don't have the time needed to get a release out. 🙏
ashb commentedon Jan 13, 2025
Closing this now as in #590 we have increased the number of maintainers and moved the package to an org 🎉