Why did you start httpx2 instead of contributing to httpx?

[Midnighter]

Your docs site states on the front page:

HTTPX2 is a continuation of the wonderful work started by @lovelydinosaur and the broader HTTPX community. We’re enormously grateful for everything that has gone into HTTPX over the years - it has been a foundational piece of the modern Python ecosystem, and this project would not exist without it.

With HTTPX itself seeing limited activity recently, Pydantic is picking up stewardship under the HTTPX2 name so that users have a reliably maintained path forward - including timely security updates for a library that sits in the critical path of so many production systems. Our aim is to honour the original project’s design, keep it stable for everyone relying on it, and continue evolving it carefully. Thank you to @lovelydinosaur and every past contributor for laying such a strong foundation. 💙

I agree that httpx lacks maintenance for some time now. I agree that anything that communicates via the internet needs security patches ASAP. I'm a happy user of httpx and applaud its continuation. I just don't understand why you started a new project when the normal way in open source would be to contribute to the existing project. This move is fragmenting the community (unnecessarily in my view). I'm missing the motivation for this move.

[mbeijen]

I'm not @Kludex but I started httpxyz just a little prior to httpx2 existing, my reasons are here: https://tildeweb.nl/~michiel/httpxyz.html

[Midnighter]

You list good reasons for forking, but you also don't answer the essential question, "why not contribute to httpx directly?" You listed that it was difficult to reach the author regarding prior work of yours. So did you try to get in touch and offer your maintainership? Were you denied?

[Kludex]

I don't think there's a need to expose more drama publicly.

Pydantic forked httpx because the repo was closed for issues, PRs and discussions.

The most downloaded packages already migrated to httpx2, so I don't think this is fragmenting, but actually consolidating.