We use JQueryTools library (http://flowplayer.org/tools/index.html), but haven’t seen any progress in last 12 months or so in terms of new development or bug fixes. There is no place on the website where I can find contact information to send in a question or two, could not post anything to the forum, and blog has been closed too.
It certainly looks like an abandoned project, but wanted to see if anyone has better insights than I do. I really like this library and what it provides, so will be really sad to see it go.
I wish we all – the consumers of open source software – sometimes realize that those developers who are producing wonderful libraries saving us significant time and energy have financial needs too! There are thousands of users of JQueryTools and some of them even charge their clients/customers $100 or more per hour for their time, but we fail to make even $50 or $100 onetime contribution to the project that provides us valuable libraries, saving us time and money! Hope in 2012 we all change our way of thinking about open source software.
Thanks.
If I look at GitHub, I see:
Question about the future can be asked at: http://flowplayer.org/tools/forum/20/66697. That thread should give you some explanation as to why activity has been low.
FlowPlayer (the other product) is growing more popular every day. I don’t think that project will be abandoned. As for the tools… I don’t know. Maybe you (or your company) could contribute to the project.