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Note that the ring maintainer has long since stopped yanking releases.

More importantly, it seems ring has recently hit a long dry spell of getting no new commits at all. There has been some light maintenance work recently, but outside contributions haven't had a credible path into the main branch for a long while now.

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The the old yanking policy was extra work I did with the intent to help people. It was unfortunate that Cargo had that bug, but also I should have been much more diplomatic in how I dealt with it.

I've just returned from a long break and I do have a concrete plan to catch up on the backlog. I have concrete plans for making it easier for people to get their PRs merged, making ring portable to all platforms, and eliminating all the remaining bits of C code in the next two quarters.

Feel free to reach out privately if you want to talk: brian@briansmith.org.

That's awesome. Thanks heaps, Brian. I really appreciate your re-commitment. Apropos, Re: making ring portable to all platforms: IBM have been graciously maintaining a up to date patchset for Ring for years now and there's an outstanding PR here you may not have seen since they filed it in 2020... https://github.com/briansmith/ring/pull/1057