I think the maintainer of FindBugs replied yesterday to the HackerNews thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12885549
Looks like there will be some activity in the next weeks :) hopefully someone else will be added as project admin too Bruno ----- Original Message ----- > From: Stian Soiland-Reyes <st...@apache.org> > To: Commons Developers List <dev@commons.apache.org> > Sent: Monday, 7 November 2016 6:32 AM > Subject: FindBugs project announced as 'dead', blaims code rot and lack of > maintainers > > See > https://mailman.cs.umd.edu/pipermail/findbugs-discuss/2016-November/004321.html > > In particular the author is not happy about the BCEL integration: > >> The other major reasons for the FindBugs current bad state: >> >> 1) The code is very complex, has "organically grown" over a > decade, is >> not documented and has poor public interfaces. Most of the code consists >> of the very low level bytecode related stuff, tightly coupled with the >> ancient BCEL library, which doesn't scale and is not multi-thread safe. >> No one enjoys maintaining this code, at least not me. I see no future >> for FindBugs with the BCEL approach, and see no way to get rid of it >> without investing lot of effort, and without breaking every detector and >> possibly many 3rd party tools. This is the biggest issue we have with >> FindBugs today, and most likely the root cause for all the evil. This >> code can't be fixed, it must be rewritten. > > ..but the main problem seems to be lack of maintaners. > > > -- > Stian Soiland-Reyes > http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9842-9718 > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org
