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hleszek · 20 days ago
Backoff, The popular Python decorator library for backoff and retry has been archived on GitHub on Aug 8, 2025.

The project is abandoned, with the last update from Jan 20, 2023.

8organicbits · 20 days ago
Looks like the entire GitHub organization is archived. Anyone know what happened? The most I see is:

https://github.com/litl/backoff/issues/211

hleszek · 20 days ago
That's why I started this discussion, hoping that someone would know what happened and also to discuss how to organize an alternative when the repository is archived and discussion is not possible anymore on GitHub.