would it make sense to recommend / point to what to do / use instead?

[froh]

the plain "this project ded" is very dry.

where would I go instead?

what's recommended best practice now?

is the whole approach stupid/wrong?

maybe you find the time to update the README with a paragraph or two?

"googling for it" leads me to several loose ends but very little useful guidance.

[dibrinsofor]

Maybe point out what you need help with.

[froh]

I found this project because I was looking for exactly such a tool which adds type annotations to up to now unannotated python projects.

My most important question: what should I use instead?

and out of curiosity_ why was it stopped? was it a mistake? lack of time/ressource? or did you find something better?

[gaborbernat]

It was a lack of time and interest for someone to maintain it.

[froh]

understood.

do you have pointers on other projects or tools attempting the same? what would someone use instead of retype?

The sad thing is: once a project has added type annotations they won't need this any more...

whatever. I found this wrt alternatives: python/typeshed#8482

[dibrinsofor]

@froh the guys at instagram have a tool called monkeytype that may be helpful. It mostly just works for base types AFAIK but I reckon between that and mypy's stubgen, you could have a neat starting point.