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(This article was first published on <strong><a href="http://fishyoperations.com/2018/01/07/discontinuing-maintenance-jug.html"> FishyOperations</a></strong>, and kindly contributed to <a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.r-bloggers.com/">R-bloggers)</a> </div>
<p>I’m starting off 2018 with dropping my involvement with <a rel="nofollow" href="https://github.com/Bart6114/jug" target="_blank">jug</a>. The reason for this being that I simply cannot find the time or interest anymore to maintain the code.</p>
<p>All of the open-source efforts that I started always had to do with a concrete need that I had in one way or another. Once that need is fulfilled by creating a solution for it, the next challenge becomes to maintain that solution.</p>
<p>In a best case scenario, someone with the right set of skills will continue the development into a mature project which become significant better then the original solution. A close to my heart example of this is <code>simmer</code> (see <a rel="nofollow" href="http://r-simmer.org/" target="_blank">http://r-simmer.org/</a>), where Iñaki Ucar has taken over the development and has improved the original enormously.</p>
<p>However, for <code>jug</code> the active developers community is currently too small too do a handover. Next to that, <code>jug</code> its main competitor <code>plumber</code> (see <a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.rplumber.io/" target="_blank">website</a>) has been able to create a significant community with highly active support.</p>
<p>Today I have to sort of admit defeat. My own time availability as co-founder of <a rel="nofollow" href="http://dataroots.io/" target="_blank">dataroots</a> and my changing interests unfortunately no long allow me to put in the time and effort required to do the unnecessary maintenance to do justice to the <code>jug</code> user base. therefore I will be discontinuing the maintenance of <code>jug</code>. If anyone would be willing to take over, they will be more than welcome.</p>
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