Interpolations is a native-Julia package for performing interpolations. Tomas Aschan and I wrote most of the package in the well-before-Julia-1.0 days, and since then I’ve been the primary maintainer. The package has received a good number of contributions from many other people over the years.
I’ve written so many packages that I can’t maintain them all, and Interpolations is a focused project that is very well suited to becoming the “pet project” of someone else. In a rapidly-growing community of Julia developers and users, for its long-term health it really needs a person who can dedicate time to it.
I have decided that it’s in the best interest of the community to force the issue by announcing my retirement from maintaining the package. I will continue to make fixes or enhancements that affect me personally, but I will no longer fix bugs, add features, engage in massive rewrites (Break all the things by timholy · Pull Request #226 · JuliaMath/Interpolations.jl · GitHub), or coach others in how to use it.
To simplify the transition, I’ve submitted a PR adding considerable “developer-oriented” documentation to the package (Add developer docs and a note about abandonment by timholy · Pull Request #365 · JuliaMath/Interpolations.jl · GitHub). I invite potential maintainers to review that pull request and the package code itself. I will leave that PR open for at least a week to address any feedback; I welcome comments like “please add a docstring to X” or “this part is confusing, can you explain more clearly?” I will do my best to address such feedback.
Once it merges, my retirement as maintainer will be official. For a period I will make a dedicated effort to review PRs from a budding maintainer; I want this transition to be as smooth as possible. Once such a person is well established I will be happy to confer administrative privileges for the package as a whole.
It’s great to see fundamental packages getting so much use, and I look forward to seeing an energetic new maintainer take Interpolations to new heights of awesomeness!