Stepping away from Caliburn.Micro, transition plans and discussion

Earlier today I announced that I would be stepping away from maintaining Caliburn.Micro. It was a hard decision, but when I was honest with myself I realized I didn’t have the time, nor the motivation due to where I am in my life these days. It would be unfair to the people still using the framework or looking to start using it to pretend otherwise.

So what does this mean for the project. I’ll publish the current version in the coming days as a release candidate for people to use.

The question I have for you all is, does it make sense for me to publish this as a full 4.0 release, without adequate support and documentation I fear that actually releasing it out of a pre-release stage may actually add more confusion.

I’m also keen to start a discussion with anyone looking to take up maintaining Caliburn.Micro and what an orderly transition would look like. If you feel like you can make the commitment then let me know.

Thank you all for the help and support you’ve given me over the eight years I’ve looked after this project.

[vb2ae]

Yes I plan on keeping it going. I am starting to look at some of the open bugs.

[nigel-sampson]

I’ve pushed the new packages to Nuget and published the blog post.

Had some issues with release pipeline so had to do a manual upload of the Xamarin.Forms package.

Would be good to check it out and make sure you’re happy with it.