Intention to continue development?

[kappa118]

I am, as I'm sure most are, sad to see the original project be removed. Since this fork seems to be the latest up until it went closed source, do you have intentions of continuing development and this repo potentially becoming the new home of StreamMaster?

I haven't dug into the code prior to today, but I do have a background in software development. I'd be willing to offer my assistance in continuing development if you'd like to maintain the work here and are looking for contributors.

[carlreid]

I have no large intentions as such to maintain this currently, as I don't personally use StreamMaster myself anymore. I just tried it a while back, which is why I think my fork became the new upstream when StreamMaster did the initial repo deletion when removing source code.

I just thought it was pretty poor taste to leave so many people in the dark all of a sudden, which is why I've put some work into this repo to make sure a Docker image is published. So users aren't just stuck, unable to pull an image entirely.

If people like yourself contribute, then I will be happy to review code and such. I might also occasionally look into code changes myself, but I honestly have no clue what the development direction was, or any known issues/bugs, etc.

[carlreid]

I've managed to source the latest commits that I could find on the branch https://github.com/carlreid/StreamMaster/tree/restored.

Will attempt to rebase my recent changes on this tomorrow. So hopefully that will be a lot newer version than we have currently.

[carlreid]

Latest release is up to version 0.18.0.

I'll close this discussion, though updated the README to contain the following:

As such, I invite you to please help collaborate with ideas and/or development by;

Issues: Open any problems you face with the release from this repository (these releases)
Discussions: To relate what features were added beyond the point in time this repository has, or any other topics

I think it might be possible to continue the work, or at least, bring things to be a lot more stable with fixes. There appears to be no testing of any kind in the solution, which also currently makes any new changes likely to cause issues on the basis of not knowing how exactly everything is hanging together.

[amddeus]

Wow thanks @carlreid !
But does anyone know what happened? Discord gone, GitHub’s gone, etc.

[carlreid]

A good question, and I'm not too sure.

All I've seen is a screenshot from Discord (from /u/EFletch79):

or another comment from /u/robflate in that thread:

I didn't save the post but the maintainer of Aiptv who wrote parts of StreamMaster said a few days ago that there was incoming "drama". The post suggested SenexCrenshaw was accusing him of stealing code while the Aiptv mainainer in response accused SenexCrenshaw of stealing ideas. They've now both simultaneously deleted their GitHub repos and Discord channels. I have no idea what happened but it's either mutually assured destruction OR if we're lucky, they will join forces and release a combination of the two OR one of them has agreed to hand over ownership to the other.

I've read on another Discord:

its interesting that carlreid/streammaster gitub had input from senex...

Which is misleading. All I did was recover the remaining public commits which seemed to end on Jan 5th. After that, the project was still worked on with updates released, but code was lost.

So far, it's been mostly trying to align with the latest versions released so that users can switch to this without issue (🤞) and wish some additional fixes.