Status update on paperclip?

It's been almost a week since you guys closed all outstanding issues.

While I can understand your desire to deprecate this gem in favor of ActiveStorage, you owe the community a lengthy explanation (and plan for going forward) because paperclip is the primary attachment gem for tens of thousands of production Rails apps.

Sometimes, when a gem is deprecated, it's not a big deal. You can switch to a new gem, make a few code changes, and be up and running. But we also need to remember that large apps which have been using paperclip for image processing might have millions of files on S3. We can't just drop paperclip overnight because migrating images into a new attachment system could take weeks or months.

FWIW, I'm hoping you give the paperclip community an option to move forward without you. Sure, ActiveStorage looks great, but we need to support apps that currently rely on paperclip until ActiveStorage fully matures and offers a clean migration path for existing paperclip users -- even if it means doing so without thoughtbot's help.

Deprecation notice

Paperclip is currently undergoing deprecation in favor of ActiveStorage. Maintainers of this repository will no longer be tending to new issues. We're leaving the issues page open so Paperclip users can still see & search through old issues, and continue existing discussions if they wish.