Gocode

[gdey]

• Where is the project currently hosted?

TBD

• Is the project written only in Go, or does it contain other languages (beyond scripts)?

Yes, may contain other languages.

• Has the project had any recent activity?

TBD

• Does the project have a maintainer, or a maintainer looking for someone to take
  over the project?

Nate finch is looking for someone to take over

• Are there active projects which replicate the popular functionality of this project?

No

• Do you have any example projects that make use of this package?

• Are there any outstanding critical bugs that result in the library being
  totally unusable or insecure?

• Please provide a link to the project importers from https://godoc.org. Example: https://godoc.org/github.com/gofrs/uuid?importers

• Is there anything else you'd like to mention about the project?

[gdey]

@gdey and @tim talked about this at the bar.

[niaow]

There is an actively maintained fork which nsf/gocode recommends: https://github.com/mdempsky/gocode

However, with a variety of current problems, the maintainer may need help

[niaow]

If we are willing to help with this, we should ping mdempsky on this issue and see how he would like to handle this.

[theckman]

Is there anyone in the @gofrs/all who feels we should definitely reach out and offer to help, anyone who doesn't? Is there someone who would want to be the "champion", for lack of better terms, for pursuing this project?

Edit: Stewards may be better than champions...

[dylan-bourque]

I can't think of any specific reason to not reach out. Definitely feels like gocode is a widely used tool and the community would be hurt if it withers. I've also seen quite a few references to people having issues in VS Code recently related to Go 1.11 and gocode. I'd be down to contribute some work, but I definitely don't have the bandwidth to be the steward.

On a little bit of a tangent, I personally like what Sourcegraph is doing with the language server over the plethora of separate command-line tools.

[antham]

I agree with @jadr2ddude, it would be interesting to know the position of mdempsky because the last change in the repository is not that old so it's not an abandoned project.

[matt0x6F]

iirc GoCode is the package that's holding up VSCode's support of go modules

Yeap: microsoft/vscode-go#1532

[alecthomas]

As I understand it, gopls is the officially supported future solution to what gocode provides, so this can probably be closed.