New maintainer wanted for Active Select

The maintainer has not responded. Moving the issue to the webmasters queue at http://drupal.org/node/487040

This module might need a co-maintainer or a new maintainer: http://drupal.org/node/251466

A Drupal 6 branch needs to be setup.

Link to project page: http://drupal.org/project/activeselect

I am the maintainer of active select, however I am not currently actively maintaining the module. The main module that made use of active select was the Category module for Drupal 5 (and Drupal 4.7). Active Select was originally written (for the Category module) for Drupal 4.7, at a time when Drupal core received its first-ever JavaScript libraries, and when things like AJAX were still cutting-edge and immature. However, a lot of things have changed since then. The Category module for Drupal 6 implements its own AJAX drill-down select system (using the built-in AHAH form functionality new to Drupal 6, and based on the book module implementation). As such, the Category module no longer has any need for activeselect.

Additionally, I believe that there are much better ways of implementing AJAX-based select widgets in Drupal 6. In particular, using the #ahah form API property, or using the Hierarchical Select module, are both superior alternatives. I therefore really don't see any reason why I or anyone else should continue to maintain activeselect. However, I could be wrong - there could be other people who believe that this module still has value in the Drupal 6 world, and that it's worth the effort of maintaining.

If anyone is interested in taking over maintainership of this module, please reply in this thread, or contact me directly. Thanks.

@Jaza: FYI If no one offers to help maintain the module and you'd like us to re-assign the module ownership to the 'Abandoned modules' user, file an issue in the webmasters queue.

Thanks for the update Jaza :)

The information in your above comment #2 is valuable. I suggest adding some of it to the module project page as a note before the module description. And adding link to alternate project(s). And adding that this project is unlikely to be maintained in Drupal 4 & 5. And adding that this project will not be ported to Drupal 6. So users and contributors efforts would be redirected to alternate projects.

Module project page: http://drupal.org/project/activeselect

@Jaza: There are still a lot of D5 sites that are benefiting from this module.

Indeed. According to the module usage statistic page there is currently 400 or so D5 websites using this module. Source: http://drupal.org/project/usage/activeselect

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