Python backoff repository was archived
github.comBackoff, The popular Python decorator library for backoff and retry has been archived on GitHub on Aug 8, 2025.
The project is abandoned, with the last update from Jan 20, 2023.
Looks like the entire GitHub organization is archived. Anyone know what happened? The most I see is:
That's why I started this discussion, hoping that someone would know what happened and also to discuss how to organize an alternative when the repository is archived and discussion is not possible anymore on GitHub.
> discuss how to organize an alternative when the repository is archived and discussion is not possible anymore on GitHub.
I see 154 outstanding forks, and the potential to create more. Perhaps an existing one has non-trivial amounts of stars/watchers?
That said, a fork can't just publish a new version on PyPI under the original name. That requires at minimum a PEP 541 request (https://peps.python.org/pep-0541/#continued-maintenance-of-a...).
You could also try contacting the author at the email provided in pyproject.toml (or the one on said author's GitHub profile), I suppose.