# Why is prosemirror-tables not maintained?

**URL:** https://discuss.prosemirror.net/t/why-is-prosemirror-tables-not-maintained/4522
**Category:** Uncategorized
**Created:** [April 4, 2022, 4:19am UTC](https://discuss.prosemirror.net/t/why-is-prosemirror-tables-not-maintained/4522 "2022-04-04T04:19:45Z")
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### Author: ![MH4GF](https://discuss.prosemirror.net/user_avatar/discuss.prosemirror.net/mh4gf/32/2609_2.png) [@MH4GF](https://discuss.prosemirror.net/u/MH4GF)
#### Post date: [April 4, 2022, 4:19am UTC](https://discuss.prosemirror.net/t/why-is-prosemirror-tables-not-maintained/4522/1 "2022-04-04T04:19:46Z")

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I am developing a rich table editing UI using prosemirror-tables. ([this plugin](https://bitbucket.org/atlassian/atlaskit-mk-2/src/master/packages/editor/editor-core/src/plugins/table/) from atlassian comes close, Thanks for publishing it.)

I am currently satisfied with the commands and useful functions provided by prosemirror-tables, but there are a few places where type definitions are missing and I am submitting a Pull Request.

> <https://github.com/ProseMirror/prosemirror-tables/pull/160>
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> Closes https://github.com/ProseMirror/prosemirror-tables/issues/159

> <https://github.com/ProseMirror/prosemirror-tables/pull/161>

I would like to merge these if possible, but it seems that prosemirror-tables is not maintained right now. Is there some reason why they are difficult to maintain?@eshvedai @marijn

It seems that not maintaining is mentioned on several topics on this site. ref: [Why selectedCell decoration so slow in large document](https://discuss.prosemirror.net/t/why-selectedcell-decoration-so-slow-in-large-document/4175/10)

It appears that the functions related to table have also been removed from Atlassian’s prosemirror-utils library. [ref](https://github.com/atlassian/prosemirror-utils/commit/bab493aad7c9fc02e8533d196bb3a6d6d1485307)

Or is it possible to have me added as a maintainer? I will not do active maintenance such as feature requests, but only minor modifications and responses to issues.

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### Author: ![marijn](https://discuss.prosemirror.net/user_avatar/discuss.prosemirror.net/marijn/32/15_2.png) [@marijn](https://discuss.prosemirror.net/u/marijn)
#### Post date: [April 4, 2022, 7:49am UTC](https://discuss.prosemirror.net/t/why-is-prosemirror-tables-not-maintained/4522/2 "2022-04-04T07:49:51Z")

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I wrote prosemirror-tables for Atlassian with the understanding that it would be something that I’d hand off to them, rather than maintain myself. So if you want to ask to be added as a contributor, you’ll have to somehow get through to one of the current maintainers. Maybe try email?

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### Author: ![MH4GF](https://discuss.prosemirror.net/user_avatar/discuss.prosemirror.net/mh4gf/32/2609_2.png) [@MH4GF](https://discuss.prosemirror.net/u/MH4GF)
#### Post date: [April 7, 2022, 10:33am UTC](https://discuss.prosemirror.net/t/why-is-prosemirror-tables-not-maintained/4522/3 "2022-04-07T10:33:36Z")

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Thanks for your response! I’ll try email.