Announcement: Development on hold

[vishnureddy17]

Unfortunately, I don't have the cycles to continue working on this rewrite. As a result, my colleagues and I have decided to put this development on hold. I'm writing this issue for transparency and so the state of this repository is clear to others.

There are still legitimate concerns with the state of the MQTT.js project, but there may be other approaches to tackling them. @BertKleewein provided some excellent suggestions in this issue.

[BearCooder]

What would need to happen in order to continue the rewrite? Funding? @vishnureddy17 & @BertKleewein? Its a shame to see it on hold.

[vishnureddy17]

@BearCooder

The work on this re-write was done on behalf of my employer, and since then we have gone through some major restructuring that means we unfortunately can no longer spend much time on this project. This comment explains the situation in more detail.

Funding might help, but we would need some other developer who is willing work on this. If this can happen, I am happy to work with that person to get them started and do some knowledge transfer.

[elmasria]

Hi @vishnureddy17 and @BearCooder,

I will be happy to contribute to this project. (I will allocate a reasonable time)

Let me know how we can proceed.