Abandoned Module - Can I Take It Over?

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I forked and updated an older module that interacts with Oracle DB:

I submitted a PR:

But it looks as if the original creator/maintainer is no longer active on GitHub (no activity within the last 2+ years). Can I be made the owner of this module so that I can get the latest version published, or is there another process for handling these situations? Should I submit the module as a separate project?

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First check on npm that there is not already a similar module which is maintained, then check the existing forks to see if any of those is active. If you don't find anything then you can release it as a new module with a different name, assuming the license with the existing module allows that.

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Try raising an issue first just in case the author responds.

If you've checked as Colin suggests and there is nothing else, best to give your new version a slightly different name for the package so that it is more easily picked up by people and they can see that it is active.

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Turns out someone has already forked it and re-submitted it. I'll work with that person to see if they'll merge my PR. Thanks.

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Brings up another point though - the original (abandoned) module should probably be pulled so that people don't try to use a seriously outdated (and non-working) module and get frustrated that it doesn't work. Is there a process for this?

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we can ask @knolleary to blacklist it

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The original author's email address is abreits@gmail.com if that helps.

It would be great to have your update Todd, as you are Mr Oracle - https://recursive.codes/

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I tend to go and mark the entry on the flows site as a 1-star for things like that so that at least people can see that they might want to avoid it.

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Now merged into node-red-contrib-oracledb-mod - Merge pull request #2 from recursivecodes/master Ā· vtulluru/node-red-contrib-oracledb-mod@dca4baf Ā· GitHub

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