Clean up the "Background Jobs" section #278
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It hasn't received commit activity for over 4 years, and it doesn't appear to even be a Ruby library (it's all C).
The delayed_job gem is already listed, and it recommends using delayed_job_active_record in the README, so there is no need to list delayed_job_active_record as well. This keeps the list more focused.
amqp is just a RabbitMQ client library, it's not a full-blown background
job library. It's also limited to EventMachine, which isn't an active
ecosystem anymore ("async" is much better).
girl_friday has been deprecated over sucker_punch for over 4 years now.
It hasn't received a commit for over 4 years. If it's revived, then we can add it back.
It hasn't received a commit in over 8 years.
It hasn't received a commit in over 9 years.
It hasn't received a commit in over 5 years and has open issues.
It hasn't received a commit in over 9 years, and has some open issues.
It hasn't received a commit in 7 years, and has some open pull requests.
It hasn't received a commit in 2 and a half years, and doesn't appear to be active otherwise.
The repo and gem doesn't appear to exist anymore.
We remove extensions of specific backgrounding libraries to keep the list more focused. Otherwise it creates a slippery slope where it's a question why wouldn't we list all extensions for each backgrounding library.
It hasn't received a commit in over 7 years.
It hasn't received a commit in over 7 years.
It hasn't received a commit in over 8 years.
It hasn't received a commit in over 4 years, has only 9 stars, and doesn't even have a README.
It hasn't seen a release for over 9 years.
It hasn't received a commit for over 7 years and has been archived.
It hasn't received a commit in over 6 years.
It hasn't received a commit in over 6 years.
It hasn't received an update in over 4 years, and has some open issues and pull requests.
It only has a 0.0.0 release and the repo is gone.
It hasn't received a commit for over 10 years.
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Please discuss in rubytoolbox/rubytoolbox#7 first. We don’t have a convention that unmaintained gem should be cleaned up, unless it is removed from RubyGems. This also applies for the other 3 Pull Requests about “cleaning up”. |
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Putting this on hold until we reach some conclusion in rubytoolbox/rubytoolbox#7 (comment) |
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This PR removes many outdated gems from the "Background Jobs" section, reducing the number of gems from 40 to 13.
I've verified that it's useful to clean up these unmaintained gems, because RocketJob, a modern library that is actively maintained, was buried underneath a pile of less popular and long unmaintained gems.