Hi all, It looks like Chess.jl by @Tord has had no activity since April 2024 and its v0.7.6 never got registered . As a result, users still pull the deprecated Formatting.jl dependency via Chess.jl@0.7.5. I have opened a “Request for maintenance” issue on GitHub, but wanted to flag it here as well…

I am certain this request was made in good faith, but nonetheless it comes across to me as a little impolite to publicly declare someone else’s package unmaintained and ask for it to be yoinked to new ownership a mere hour after opening the issue in the package asking about maintenance status. I wou…

@adienes That indeed sounds reasonable and I had no intention of being impolite—all I wanted to do is to use more than one channel for comms. Mentioning issues, #41 on GitHub succinctly addresses an issue that affects all users of Chess.jl, provides what looks like a rather simple fix that would li…

The key point is that the code is open source! It’s available for maintenance! Anyone can fork it, apply changes, and propose them back. [image] gwr: an issue that affects all users of Chess.jl, is rather simple to fix (would likely have taken the maintainer <20 minutes), and it’s back from Apr…

[image] mbauman: Nobody has done that “simple fix” — not even on a fork — as far as I can see. In fact nobody has proposed any changes since May 2023. It’s not just on a single person here. Sure, it’s open source, it’s not just on a single person, and indeed, there could have been more help t…

[image] gwr: (BTW the “dispute procedure for packages” that you referenced seems to still be an open issue?) Yeah, that’s why I called it a “rough process.” But we’re a long ways from knowing that Chess.jl needs a new maintainer or even a new home— we first need the work itself! That part o…

That’s great! I’m definitely not throwing stones here; my own house is far too glassy for that. Welcome aboard :slight_smile:

Fix: bump Format.jl to v1.3.7 master ← gwr69:fix/format-registration opened 05:59PM - 16 Jul 25 UTC (UTC) [image] gwr69 …

As of today, I have written an E-Mail to Tord Romstad (using the address given for his GitHub profile): Hi Tord, I hope this message finds you well. As a chess fan and recent Julia convert (from Wolfram Language), I’ve added your excellent package Chess.jl to my default environment. Unfortunatel…

I submitted a few PRs to Chess.jl a while back (I have the second most contributions on that repo… 9 commits vs 135 haha). I maintained a private fork with of it with significant changes for a while for some analysis that I was doing, but I never really considered maintaining a public fork of it (I …

I’m sure the chess aficionados are aware of this. The author of Chess.jl, Tord Romstad, is also an author of Stockfish, and is the author of its predecessor. Stockfish is one of (if not the) strongest chess engines. [Parallelism and selectivity in game tree search]

Chess.jl could use some love

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tecosaur October 24, 2025, 7:00am 16

This is also what the Julia package orphanage exists for.

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