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> For about 10 years, I had worked on this project almost every day of my life.
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> But with the new life, came new steps to be climbed, I had new responsabilities and things to go. Then I started a PhD and had to focus on it so I could not keep up maintaining the library. I even tried to hire freelance developers to help, and it worked to some extent, but at some point I did not have the resources anymore. Eventually, I developed anxiety of even opening the issues page or checking my e-mails because I feel I might have left so many people behind. Next, a few months before my defense, Microsoft announced that they wanted to make ML.net, **meaning that Accord.NET would eventually become obsolete** as ML.net should become the de-facto ML library for .NET.
> But with the new life, there came new steps to be climbed, and I suddently had new responsabilities and things to accomplish well. I started a PhD and had to focus on it so I could not keep up maintaining the library for about three years. I even tried to hire freelance developers to help maintain it in the meantime, and it worked to some extent, but at some point, I did not have the resources to keep up with the development anymore. Eventually, I developed panic-level anxiety when just opening the issues page of the project or checking my persnal e-mails because I felt I had left behind so many people who happened to depend on my work. Next, a few months before my defense, Microsoft announced that they wanted to make ML.net, **meaning that Accord.NET would eventually become obsolete** as ML.net should become the de-facto ML library for .NET.
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> In addition, I've also published in, and attended, the most important machine learning conferences in the world, and in academia, no one has ever heard of the framework. People may even laugh or mistreat you if you mention you have developed something in C# for machine learning, as everyone (understandably) uses Python (I myself only use Python to do my work, and while I love C#/.NET, there is nothing that can compete with Python/Pytorch).
> In addition, I have to say that I have published in, and attended, the most important machine learning conferences in the world. And in this context, in the Academia world, I can 100% say that no one has ever heard of this framework or the project itself. From my experience, people in those conferences can laugh or even mistreat you, if you mention you have ever developed anything in C#, specially for machine learning, as everyone [understandably] uses Python nowadays to accomplish tasks in this domain (I myself only use Python to do my work, and while I love C#/.NET, there is nothing that can compete with Python/Pytorch nowadays).
> In the past months, I have been pondering about archiving the project. To avoid that, **I am willing to make someone who would like, also an administrator of the project**.
> Therefore, in the past months, I have been pondering about archiving the project. To avoid that, **I am willing to make someone who would like, also an administrator of the project**.
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> I am also willing to change the license of any file where I am the single author (you can check the copyright headers in each file) to **MIT** so people can reuse individual pieces of code more easily. Anyone who becomes administrator is welcome to slice the parts of the project that still make sense to exist (e.g., the FFmpeg wrappers, statistical distributions, statistical tests and the simple transforms like PCA) and even start new libraries (hopefully in .NET Core) providing only them if wanted.
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