Re: Future of jemalloc on FreeBSD after archive

On Tue, Jun 10, 2025 at 09:02:37AM -0700, Bakul Shah wrote:
> On Jun 10, 2025, at 8:40???AM, Gleb Popov <arrowd@freebsd.org> wrote:
> > 
> > On Mon, Jun 9, 2025 at 11:08???PM Minsoo Choo <minsoochoo0122@proton.me> wrote:
> >> 
> >> As of June 2, 2025, jemalloc repository on Github has been archived. [1]
> > 
> > Is there any explanation why it got archived? It feels surprising as I
> > recently heard news that Qt added some code to take advantage of
> > jemalloc-specific functions.
> 
> From https://x.com/nateberkopec/status/1930010446410723533 & followups:
> 
> jemalloc mystery resolved: jemalloc has moved to the official Facebook github organization
> 
> context: for the last 2+ years the primary maintainers of jemalloc have been FB employees. this just formalizes Evans' stepping off the project.
> 
> jemalloc???s not dead ! The Meta fork is the new home, ???still actively developing here??? but issues now have to go in discussions https://github.com/facebook/jemalloc/discussions/7#discussioncomment-13394532
> 
> Contributor commit info shows pretty abrupt handoff from Jason Evans to Qi Wang (interwq) and David Goldblatt in 2017, so I presume this ???small team??? was primarily these 2. Note Qi Wang???s contributions tapering off, David stopped post-pandemic: LinkedIn says he left Meta in 2024

It's been maintained by Facebook forever so that's not a change.

Why not move the repo or break the fork so issues work?  This feels like
flailing around without understanding how github works and does not
inspire confidence.

-- Brooks