Question regarding future work

[jlindgren90]

Hi @postspectacular, I noticed there haven't been any commits in master for a while, and a couple of PRs have been sitting for a bit too. Are you still interested in maintaining tinyalloc here, or would it make sense for ongoing work to continue in a new org/repo?

@marknelsonengineer (hope the tag is right) contacted me separately and is also interested in working on tinyalloc - I'll let him speak more to that.

[marknelsonengineer-student]

Aloha @postspectacular,

I’m on the hunt for a lightweight malloc and came across tinyalloc. My initial assessment is positive and I’d like to invest some effort into it.

@jlindgren90 has been doing some good work recently with tinyalloc, adding some tests and applying some outstanding PRs.

The work I’d like to do is:

1. Document the codebase using Doxygen. Once I’m done, we’ll have a small website with the entire API documented.
2. Ensure that the codebase is compliant with clang-tidy. Right now, there’s only one issue (a variable is too small, but otherwise, it looks like it’s very well engineered).

We’d like to keep tinyalloc alive. A lot of good projects continue after the developer has moved onto other things. I think tinyalloc could be one of them.

Would you be interested in creating an organization called tinyalloc, transferring the repo to it and then adding a few folks as maintainers?

Thank you so much.

Very Respectfully,

Mark Nelson
UH Visiting Professor
College of Engineering | University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa