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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, 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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>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 tried to hire freelance developers to help maintain the project in the meantime I had to be absent, 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 since I felt I had left so many people behind by not being able to keep up with the development of the project. At all costs, I had decided to avoid at all costs opening the issues page of the project, or even checking my own personal e-mails, to avoid receiving new inquiries about the project.
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Then, a few months before my PhD defense (which happened very well, actually!), Microsoft announced that they wanted to make ML.net, which I actually fully support, the standard approach for machine learning in .NET. While this is great news (because I fully support MS giving more support for ML needs out there), this eventually meant**that Accord.NET would eventually become obsolete as ML.net was on its path to become the de-facto ML library for .NET**.
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>Inaddition, I have to say thatI have published in, and attended,the most important machine learning conferences in the world. Andin this context,in the Academia world, I can 100% say thatno one has ever heard ofthis 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).
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>I think that the reasons above would have been already enough reasons to sustain my reasons on why I decided to not update Accord.NET anymore. However... inaddition, I have to say that, as a researcher, and not solely as a developer,I havealsopublished in, and attended to,**the most important machine learning conferences in the world to date**. Andunder this context,I need to say that, in the academia,**no one has ever heard ofthe 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).
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>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**.