This is certainly much better than just letting the software die a silent, anonymous death. At work we were about to do a project localized to a language nobody at the office speaks, so we were looking forward to using CopyCopter to work with the translators. I'm very glad Thoughtbot had the decency to release the code, so that we still have the option to use it.
I do hope, however, that the developers there continue to play a role in the project. Just "dumping" a product into the open source world without continuing to contribute to it can kill a product almost as effectively as shuttering it with no source release.
I've been in a Campfire room with the new maintainers for a few days. We've been coordinating the transition for a couple of weeks. Looking forward to knocking out a few more features and bugs in the next few days while they get used to the codebase.
Everyone's busy so we'll see how much time is needed and able to be spent by the new maintainers but we're happy to have found almost a dozen developers to lead maintenance across the two companies (Crowdtap and Iora Health) and we took the time to express a process and way of doing things to help make the project more efficient:
I do hope, however, that the developers there continue to play a role in the project. Just "dumping" a product into the open source world without continuing to contribute to it can kill a product almost as effectively as shuttering it with no source release.