#1111491 O: judy -- C library for creating and accessing dynamic arrays

#1111491#5
Date:
2025-08-18 15:10:54 UTC
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To:
I intend to orphan the judy package.

The package description is:
 Judy is a C library that implements a dynamic array.  Empty Judy arrays are
 declared with null pointers.  A Judy array consumes memory only when
 populated yet can grow to take advantage of all available memory.  Judy's key
 benefits are:  scalability, performance, memory efficiency, and ease of use.
 Judy arrays are designed to grow without tuning into the peta-element range,
 scaling near O(log-base-256).
 .
 Judy arrays are accessed with insert, retrieve, and delete calls for number
 or string indexes.  Configuration and tuning are not required -- in fact not
 possible.  Judy offers sorting, counting, and neighbor/empty searching.
 Indexes can be sequential, clustered, periodic, or random -- it doesn't
 matter to the algorithm.  Judy arrays can be arranged hierarchically to
 handle any bit patterns -- large indexes, sets of keys, etc.
 .
 Judy is often an improvement over common data structures such as:  arrays,
 sparse arrays, hash tables, B-trees, binary trees, linear lists, skiplists,
 other sort and search algorithms, and counting functions.

#1111491#18
Date:
2025-10-03 01:13:27 UTC
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To:
Syed,

Approximately two months ago, you filed an *Intent-to-Adopt (ITA)* for
the *"judy" package*. Despite this, there has been no visible activity
or change in the package repository since that time, with the last
commit dating back two months from Andreas Tille.

Could you please confirm your current plans for "judy"? Should you not
have a plan to proceed, I respectfully request that you *release the
package* so that another interested maintainer can take ownership.

I must also note that similar lack of follow-through has been observed
with other packages you have adopted. Adopting a package requires active
stewardship; simply completing the ITA process does not fulfill this
obligation.

Regards,