Is Django-Tagging still maintained? [closed]

Question

Last contribution to github has been on 2010_01_22, which is more than 2 years now. Tagging still works, but will it continue to? Is it just so well written it doesn't need maintaining for such a long time? Or do i just have the wrong source with https://github.com/brosner/django-tagging?

Ade

Could one of the downvoters please explain why they downvoted? This is a question which can be answered without asking for opinions. And i can't find information on Google if the app is still maintained, as i wanted to know. – Ade

Ah, looks like it isn't a legitimate question to ask if an open source project has been abandoned two years after the last update. Interesting :D – Ade

Marco Fucci comments "Just to be clear, using django-tagging 0.3.1 might not be recommended at the moment as the current version has problems and limitations. You should use another django app instead." – Humdrum

Issue 279 - Doesn't work on Django 1.5 seems to indicate that the module requires updating. Longstanding issues go unanswered. Issue 273 is interesting as well. Check the issue queue and come to your own conclusions whether you should rely on django-tagging for your projects. I've used it in the past, it's a good module, but unsupported for a long time. – Capernaum

Just noticed github.com/svetlyak40wt/django-tagging-ng which appears to be taking django-tagging forward and has some commits in September 2014 (though no commits in the previous two years). – Shiver

Answer 1

That's just a clone of http://code.google.com/p/django-tagging/ which works perfectly and is a very well written app. There is also a good alternative called django-taggit https://github.com/alex/django-taggit

Suh

Code on code.google.com is not newer than the one on github. Question persists. – Ade

not really. just because the code hasn't been updated doesn't mean there is anything wrong with it. All the tagging apps do exactly what you need and have nothing wrong with them. – Nationalist

Ok, so i assume django-tagging is still state of the art. Thank you for your answer. – Ade

django-tagging is not compatible with django1.5+ – Mesonephros

Colin Anderson: Where did you get that info about the incompatibility? – Cutie

django-tagging is now maintained by Julien Fache. This is confirmed by the author/maintainer information on Python's package index PyPI. Julien has taken over the project in February 2014. Since then it has been in continuous development. I would say, Julien's name alone is proof enough that the project is finally active again, and in a well-maintained state. – Camaraderie