Call for Maintainers & Support

[SebastianWolf-SAP]

We regret to inform you that we can no longer maintain this project due to changing priorities. As you might have seen, the latest version of this project is built with an older RFC SDK, which is no longer supported by SAP. Therefore, the processing of issues and pull requests is on hold for now.

However, we would like to avoid having to archive the project in Q4/2024 and would like to hand it over to new maintainers. We are therefore looking forward to potential volunteers who would be willing to take over this project. In this case, please contact [email protected]. We will then get in touch with you as soon as possible.

Thank you for your understanding,
SAP Open Source Program Office

[sean-freeman]

@SebastianWolf-SAP The polite course of action in the open-source community and should be in accordance with best practice by the SAP Open Source Program Office, is to release a final version of the main branch and the last tested version (in this case, tested against NWRFC SDK Patch ?) prior to the core/sole developer stepping down from the project.

Can you please trigger another release of PyRFC, with the above last tested version, and note the call for maintainers in the release notes? The PyRFC Package can then be yanked from the Python Package Index (pypi) thereafter.

At the moment - the last version of PyRFC is version 3.3.1 released in Jan-2024, compatible with NWRFC SDK Patch 12 released in Aug-2023.

[SebastianWolf-SAP]

@sean-freeman Thanks for your comment! We will check internally what we can do here.

[fvenegasn]

Hi, I'm having some trouble with this library. As it has been disabled from PyPI, I'm not being able to get it from the command line pip install pyrfc. I also tried other alternatives and can't understand if I'm doing things wrong or it isn't possible neither.

Are we going to know what happens with the project? Is it going to still be available for use without support and/or previous SDK version? Which "official" alternatives are there going to be in the future (for example for scripts that download tables massively)?

Thanks in advance

[SebastianWolf-SAP]

@fvenegasn We've received several positive replies to our call for maintainers and will start discussions with potential new maintainers shortly. However, until these talks are completed, we don't know how things will continue here and can't give any commitments.

[fvenegasn]

@SebastianWolf-SAP thanks for the answer and hope to hear some news soon!

[leginee]

@SebastianWolf-SAP Is there an update?