[NEW MAINTAINER REQUEST] Seems that the new maintainer wasn't really a good choice

[thanksmister]

I was told by @thecowan that he had previously worked for Google, that he was excited to take over this project. However, it's seems that was a mistake on my part. @thecowan has done nothing at all for the project and has let down the community and essentially killed the project.

There is no reason for this project to be further maintained by @thecowan. I request the project be either returned to me, including Google Play store listings so that I can find the project a new maintainer.

Optionally a new maintainer can fork this project, then break the fork pointing back to this repository. Going forward I will point all references and links to the new forked project.

I would like community feedback on this action.

-Mister

[gabrymed]

It’s a great application and I hope you'll find a new maintainer. I use it for my wall panel and it's very good. Don't close this project please!

[svenstaro]

I think it's rather reasonable to request the project back. @thanksmister did you try contacting @thecowan via the email address given on his GitHub profile?

[Nik19792000]

Hi guys, I'd be willing to help with the maintenance of this project, if someone joins me. I have a Google developer account and can put this app back into the app store. I haven't done any programming in Kotlin yet, so I'd need some help there.

[TheTimeWalker]

Hey there! I personally use Wall Panel quite extensively for my two Archos Hello tablets and I would be happy to see this project get picked up again.

I have made a fork of it in my personal account for now to work on it: https://github.com/TheTimeWalker/wallpanel-android
Not much has been done yet, I'm currently just looking into updating Kotlin, packages, etc. so it's on the latest code base again. I then hope to bring in fixes like the MQTT issue for Android 9+

[svenstaro]

Has anyone tried reaching out to Paul via the mail on his profile?

[thanksmister]

I think he’s either succumbed to covid or fallen under a bus. I would love for someone else to pick up the project and at least put it back into the Google store. It has a lot of users and much life to live.

[thanksmister]

Hey there! I personally use Wall Panel quite extensively for my two Archos Hello tablets and I would be happy to see this project get picked up again.

I have made a fork of it in my personal account for now to work on it: https://github.com/TheTimeWalker/wallpanel-android Not much has been done yet, I'm currently just looking into updating Kotlin, packages, etc. so it's on the latest code base again. I then hope to bring in fixes like the MQTT issue for Android 9+

Let me know if you have any questions or if I can help in any way. The project was mine before it was taken over by @thecowan. MQTT library for Android is probably the biggest issue since the maintainers of that library have not been updating it well.

[TheTimeWalker]

Thanks! I have been using the app while it was under your name, so I'm totally aware of that :)

I have quickly looked up about the MQTT library a bit yesterday while working on updating the codebase, and it is unfortunate that Eclipse Paho is mostly concentrating on Rust and C(++). They kind of abandoned the Java version, so I was looking for alternatives like for example HiveMQ MQTT Client which looks a bit younger and more active. But first I'm currently migrating some other stuff like moving away from Android Extensions in views to View Binding making it all fresh again.

[thanksmister]

I love a good refactoring project especially when it involves updating the architecture.

The Paho library has two parts, the Android specific client is the issue because it’s not forward compatible with Android 9+.

This could be rewritten as a solution. We should have this discussion on your repository to bang around ideas.

[thanksmister]

What you could do is fork this project and then break the fork on Github so that you project no longer depends on this project. It would be its own repo. I will point all references to the new repository.

[TheTimeWalker]

The fork is now detached

[pjdubya]

If you still need a hand with this I'm game to help too.