Codemaid Status

[DaleMckeown]

Hi,

This is a great plugin and I've been using it for a number of years.

With the last release in Feb 2021, last commits in July 2023, and open PRs being sat for years, is it safe to assume that this extension is no longer being supported?

I'm sure that the community would appreciate some form of indication from maintainers as to whether there is any life left in codemaid.

perhaps new maintainers can be sought?

[codecadwallader]

Thanks for asking the question.

Yes, it is safe to say that the extension is no longer being actively supported by maintainers. There is some ad hoc support happening from the community.

CodeMaid was started way back in 2007 against Visual Studio 2005 and the VS SDK/APIs that existed at that time. It has evolved over the years and several editions of Visual Studio, but fundamentally it is still largely based upon the VS APIs from VS2005. Microsoft has stopped actively supporting those APIs (follow #879 for details) and has commented that they will probably remove them entirely from the next version of Visual Studio. I have explored transitioning CodeMaid to Roslyn a few times, but it is a pretty dramatic rewrite and I would suggest starting a fresh extension and just using CodeMaid's source code for inspiration/logic.

If there are others who would like to take up the mantle of being active maintainers, I'll welcome and support them. My recommendation though would be to look at some more modern tools that have come up over the years (e.g., Visual Studio's added their own code cleanup, Roslyn analyzers, Prettier, etc.)

Thanks again for asking the question so kindly. CodeMaid has been a huge part of my life over the years, and while I still have a passion for code clean up, I've moved on to other passion projects.

[heartacker]

thanks for those years