This issue is primarily intended for myself (@tartley) & @wiggin15 to chat about how best to serve the colorama project going forward. But I thought I'd post it here so the discussion is public.

Context

Many years ago, I (the initial author of Colorama) stopped using Windows. This left me with little motivation to continue work on Colorama. I appealed to contributors for help with maintenance, and @wiggin15 stepped up to provide masses of work on keeping the project working, by submitting fixes and improvements, and dealing with other's posted issues and PRs.

This worked really well for a long time, but eventually we have accumulated some long-standing issues and PRs that have languished without getting the attention they deserve. Turns out, (almost) unpaid volunteer open source work leads to burnout, as other projects and aspects of life eventually have to take priority. :-)

Representative of this, I got an email recently from a github issue, asking:

Did you make any progress in resurrecting your release process?

I feel bad that there are PRs people have submitted, which are languishing unmerged, and wanted to chat about what's best to do about it. The following seem like options. Opinions or other ideas are welcome.

a) Continue as-is, with minimal maintenance. I don't feel this is fair on users or contributors.

b) Commit ourselves to spending more time helping get these PRs merged. I am not motivated to do this. How do you feel, @wiggin15?

c) Be more explicit (in the README, etc) that colorama is not a very active project, and people should not expect to get new PRs merged, especially for new functionality. This would then be very similar to option (a), but at least it gives people a heads-up on the situation before they work on submitting new PRs.

d) Extend and continue the search for others to help with maintenance. @wiggin15's perspective on this, especially, would be most welcome.

e) Explicitly tell people that we would welcome & support a fork, if it helps with (d).