Is the project alive?

[bdrum]

In our team we have found that project covers our architecture ideas very good, but seems the project is prepare to die:(
Hope I'm wrong and long live the king ;) but one question is very interesting to me, perhaps some better solution or any modern approach for running experiments exists (e.g. dvc.org)?

[thequilo]

This is very much related to an older issue (#761). The owner (@Qwlouse) and other maintainers currently seem not to be interested in the project anymore, and the last update on PyPi is pretty old (see #857). I'm currently trying to answer issues and pull requests as good as I can, but things are sometimes slow and I don't have full rights over the repository.

There are many other issues with the codebase itself which would require a rewrite of a large part of the project (plans were made in #610, #663 but never implemented). I don't have the capacity to do that.

Recently, many projects for experiment tracking appeared out there, many of them are cloud-based. Examples are neptune, weights&biases, comet, mlflow, and google gives you plenty more. They differ in their feature sets and I'm not sure if they can replace all of sacred's functionality. What I like especially about sacred is its configuration system and the local file storage options.