Unmaintained package?

[Morisset]

Hi Jonathan!
I really appreciate a lot your tool to quickly incorporate references to a bibtex file. I noticed that you added the "Unmaintained" mention to the title of the project. Is there any thing one can do to try to help you or anybody else to at least adapt the code to the new ADS? Do you know any fork that is working on this? Or any alternative, even using other bibtex GUI, like JabRef?
Thanks,
Christophe

[keflavich]

I've taken on maintainer duties for this package, but I'm not putting a lot of time into it.

As for adapting to new ADS... I didn't realize we were using the old API, but I think you're right that we need to shift to the new one. We can use https://github.com/andycasey/ads, but I don't think it has a PDF retrieval tool, so we'll need to hack one of those together, either in that package or in astroquery's NASA_ADS module.

[bryanmiller]

I'm willing to help work on updating to the new API.

[r-xue]

Hi everyone, I more or less have ported essential functions to a new repo.

I thought about making incremental changes to my ads_bibdesk fork and PR back, but felt it would be too much burden to carry along some older code pieces.

Any comment/suggestion/contribution is welcome. Please help me catch typos. I will add the credits (e.g. Jonathan and others) from the original package back in descriptions as the "API edition" borrows some codes here.

[keflavich]

👍. If you want to re-host that here, I think we can do that - I probably have permission and I think Jonathan would approve. If not, once we're convinced that your fork is the way forward, I can redirect the frontpage to your code. I won't have time to test this for a bit, though, which hints even more that your code should take precedence...

[RuiPereira]

Hi everyone. It's been a while, so I'm happy to see that there are ongoing efforts to keep the package alive.

@r-xue port does seems to be the way to go, there was a lot of deprecated code and the ADS API change is vital. I contributed (long ago) with the AppKit and PDF download stuff, so if I can be of any help don't hesitate to ask!