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What is the maintenance status of this project? #138
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In gh, we've had a long outstanding PR to use this module for secure credential management.
Looking at the repo commit history, community interactions (or lack thereof), and dependent forks, it's not clear to me what the maintenance status of this project is.
I totally understand that ongoing maintenance of a project like this is burdensome, and might not be something 99designs or individuals want to continue with, but I do hope y'all (maybe @mtibben?) can offer some guidance on what potential consumers of this project might be able to expect in the short term or long term?
Cheers!
Reacted by Brett, Cleyan Sampaio, Joker_, Loren Gordon, Will Owens, karpfediem and Oliver Mannion
Reacted by Loren Gordon
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ghthor commentedon Feb 2, 2025
I'm really looking forward to the gh-cli storing my non-expiring GH token inside a password store on linux. I hope we hear back soon on this question.
williammartin commentedon Feb 3, 2025
@ghthor sorry if you already responded but I couldn't spot your name in any of the existing threads. What about the current approach doesn't work for you on Linux? The primary intention of moving over to this project was to avoid providing excess privileges to the
securitybinary on MacOS.ghthor commentedon May 19, 2025
@williammartin On linux the GH Token secret is stored in plaintext on disk
williammartin commentedon May 19, 2025
ghtries to store the token in your keyring using https://github.com/zalando/go-keyring/blob/b38ab4b7224a1f2d243fc35cd3a646ad1cdcdf40/keyring_unix.go#L17 on linux. There's no blocker, requiring us to use this library. Feel free to file an issue oncli/cliexplaining your setup and hopefully we can help you out.mbevc1 commentedon Jan 19, 2026
Maintained fork: https://github.com/ByteNess/keyring/
lox commentedon Jun 13, 2026
As the original author of this, I've also got a fork going at https://github.com/lox/keyring. Trying to encourage the 99designs folks to do something about this.
mbevc1 commentedon Jun 13, 2026
Cool, we got quite a few new backends merged to ByteNess/keyring . Feel free to check it out
lox commentedon Jun 13, 2026
I've reached out to the 99designs folks to see if they can either transfer or archive the repo. /cc @lwc
mbevc1 commentedon Jun 13, 2026
Yeah, it'd be useful to at least call out active forks. I managed to get this to aws-vault repo
thejesh23 commentedon Nov 11, 2026
Context: the last commit on master is from December 2022, and comments here point to the ByteNess/keyring fork as actively maintained.
mbevc1 commentedon Nov 11, 2026
Yeah, also maintained aws-vault fork is using https://github.com/ByteNess/keyring and we're accepting new changes 🚀