Comment by zahlman

> The fix was ignored and there was never any release since November 2024. Me, and others, asked repeatedly for a release containing my fix. I sent email to the author personally. I got response when I added that I was considering forking. The author replied “1.0 development is on course”.... I do understand about maintainer burnout, and preferring to work on ‘next’, and that there is life outside of Python, but I think not doing anything for maintenance and also not letting other people help out in maintaining, for such a high profile module, is problematic.

I feel like it's counterproductive in situations like this to mention forking. It will come across like a threat, when there isn't really anything intrinsically aggressive about it. So just do it; and when you have a decent amount of separate development, you can decide whether to make PRs back, advertise your fork, etc.