Publish PRoot / Care Development Status Update

[oxr463]

I think it would be ideal to create a blog post describing the current state of PRoot i.e. the transition of maintainership from the original author, and the issues faced by the current maintainers leading to the large gap since the last release.

See also: proot-me/proot#157

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https://github.com/proot-me/proot/blob/master/doc/proot/changelog.txt

[oxr463]

Timeline

Dec. 15, 2014 - Latest release, v5.1.0, by Cedric Vincent, (See: git checkout tags/v5.1.0; git log -n1).

Nov. 3, 2016 - New maintainers step up to continue development of PRoot, (See: proot-me/proot#106).

Jun. 16, 2017 - Development stagnates due to frozen PRs, (See: proot-me/proot#122).

Oct. 1, 2017 - New release requested, (See: proot-me/proot#127).

Status

There are currently nine people on the PRoot Team, (According to the GitHub organization, most members are hidden), however many of them are no longer active.

Seeking Core Infrastructure Initiative (CII), Best Practices Badge via self-certification, (See: proot-me/proot#157).

Support for musl added; PRoot ported to Alpine Linux, (See: https://git.alpinelinux.org/aports/commit/?id=e5bc64161b3a4b079fa324bcb3a52e2303d17c08).

TODO

• Add Termux fork of PRoot to website.