Archive gometalinter

[alecthomas]

The gometalinter GitHub project will be archived on 2019-04-07. Releases will still be available for download but no further code will be committed and issues will be read-only.

Switch to golangci-lint.

Many thanks to all contributors, in particular @dnephin who has helped me maintain gometalinter for the last year or two.

Edit: Just to be clear: binary downloads will still be available and the repository will remain, it will just become read-only and all development will cease. Any existing projects that use gometalinter will continue to work.

[quasilyte]

Please, don't be too fast with this decision.
Let this issue be open for at least several weeks.
Maybe someone would have good arguments in favor of not doing it.

My first step outside of "go lint only" was gometalinter, so I feel nostalgic. :(

[dnephin]

I do not have much time to maintain the project. At most I seem to have a bit of time to answer the occasional question on the issue tracker.

Maybe a first option could be to add a note at the top of the README and in the issue template saying something like the above (current maintainers are considering archiving the project, if you are interested in taking over please say something).

If nothing changes over the next few (maybe 6?) months then I guess archiving would seem like an acceptable option.

I can volunteer to make those changes sometime over the next week or so if that is what we decide.

[alecthomas]

That sounds reasonable.

1. Put a note in the README of our intentions.
2. Archive it in 3 months.

[lkysow]

@alecthomas thanks so much for all your hard work on this project! It's had a measurable impact on runatlantis/atlantis and found a couple of bugs I'd missed.

Golangci-lint almost has feature parity so I think EOL'ing this project is a totally legit decision.

🥂 Cheers and thanks again! 🥂

[alecthomas]

You're welcome.

I'll archive the project on April 7th.

[cristaloleg]

Thank you for all your great work @alecthomas 💯

[alecthomas]

I've updated the title and README accordingly.

[thrasher-]

Thanks for making such a great project @alecthomas & @dnephin!