This repo needs a new owner!

[hparra]

Friends, this repo is in desperate need of a new owner.

I thought I created a deprecation notice years ago ago, but apparently this only happened in my head. Github emails were buried until recently last year. I am no longer qualified to maintain this code as I have not used ruby or done serial port programming in well over a decade. I can't even push the gem as I have lost those credentials as well as access to the related email account.

I will help whoever in the community steps up. I'm not sure who that would be, or how we should choose that person.

My sincerest apologies to the ruby and open-source communities for my negligence.

CC: @tenderlove

[hparra]

I have contacted Ruby Gems support for further guidance. Relevant: https://blog.rubygems.org/2022/01/19/rubygems-adoptions.html

[tenderlove]

I've developed a pure Ruby alternative to this gem here. TBH I really don't want to maintain GPL code, so I don't particularly want to work on this gem. Additionally I think the pure Ruby version I've developed is easier to maintain (and I use it everyday).

@hparra since I have access on RubyGems, I can just add a new account for you with push access. I can do the same for anyone that wants to take over as well.

[tenderlove]

Additionally, I'm happy to rename my uart gem to serialport, but I absolutely don't want to maintain backwards compatibility (which is one reason I just decided to make a new gem in the first place)