# RMagick is looking for a maintainer

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rmagick-is-looking-for-a-maintainer/176691>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [October 5, 2009, 12:30am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rmagick-is-looking-for-a-maintainer/176691 "2009-10-05T00:30:31Z")\
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**Author:** ![timhunter](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/71e660/32.png) [@timhunter](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/timhunter)\
**Post date:** [October 5, 2009, 12:30am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rmagick-is-looking-for-a-maintainer/176691/1 "2009-10-05T00:30:31Z")

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“Believe me, ladies and gentlemen, there’s nothing penultimate about  
this one.”

As I mentioned in my previous post, I’ve just uploaded RMagick 2.12.0 to  
RubyForge. This will be the my last release of RMagick. I’m looking for  
someone to take over maintenance of this project. The maintainer should  
have a moderate skill with C programming, be familiar with Ruby’s C  
extension API, and either be familiar with or be willing to learn  
ImageMagick’s MagickCore API. If you’re interested please email me at  
this address or at rmagick AT rubyforge DOT org.

I added the RMagick project to the RAA on 31Dec2002. This means that  
December 31 of this year is RMagick’s 7th anniversary. Therefore I will  
continue to support RMagick users and work with the new maintainer until  
the end of the year. Regardless of what happens, my involvement with  
RMagick will end on 31Dec2009.

For the six or so people who may care, I’m also stopping work on  
MagickWand for Ruby. This is an infant project but personally I think  
it’s a project with a lot of potential. If you’re interested in taking  
over this nascent project, email me. Skills required are similar to what  
I described above, except MagickWand for Ruby uses the MagickWand API.  
Again, the deadline is 31Dec2009.