Is nbdev still alive?

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I feel a little ungrateful asking this question, but it’s been around 6 months since there’s been a substantive commit at https://github.com/fastai/nbdev. I recently stumbled across a blog post by Hamel from around the time nbdev development appears to have stopped subtitled “Why I decided not to commercialize nbdev”.

If ya’ll are not planning on continuing to actively maintain nbdev, I’d just like to know so I can make plans to transition my project away from it going forward. I guess you might also consider recruiting new maintainers?

Apologies in advance if I’m jumping to conclusions or if I’ve missed your comment on this elsewhere.

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Oops, I’m just now seeing (thanks to a helpful tip) that just a few days ago @hamelsmu commented on this topic on the discord, complete with an encouraging invitation for new contributors:
Just want to echo that it is a good opportunity for someone willing to get involved in nbdev to do so…

I guess the way to go about responding to that invitation is to start making helpful PRs?

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Correct - my suggestion is to start with improving the documentation

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If you allow me the grumble, there are several doc related PRs open for months. If you need help merging those, I’m happy to help.

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Right, I guess that was part of what made me fearful for nbdev’s future (and hesitant to put the time into making PRs). To be fair, though, I only see one doc-related PR that strikes me immediately as ready to merge without further (time-consuming) testing, discussion, or revisions:

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Thanks, @jeremy, for resuscitating it quite thoroughly in the past 24 hours!