Looking for New Maintainers: The Gorilla Toolkit
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Matt Silverlock
Dec 12, 2021, 11:31:20 AM12/12/21
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The Gorilla Toolkit is looking for a new maintainer (or maintainers, plural). As the last standing maintainer of the project, I no longer have time to fully dedicate to maintaining the libraries here, and
The major libraries - mux (https://github.com/gorilla/mux), schema (https://github.com/gorilla/schema), handlers (https://github.com/gorilla/handlers), and sessions (https://github.com/gorilla/sessions), are all reasonably mature libraries, but ongoing stewardship around bug triage, feature enhancements, and potential "version 2.0s" are all possibilities.
* Have a demonstrated history of OSS contributions. This is important, as you need to be trustworthy: _no_ maintainer is better than an adversarial maintainer!
* Ideally, you actively contribute for 3-6 months, I merge after you review, and you gain the commit bit on the relevant repos after that period and/or active engagement on your part.
* I transition you to admin of the project.
> Note: I don't expect this to be quick or easy - the websocket library, with 16k stars & 15k unique clones per week, has been looking for a new maintainer for 3.5+ years, and has yet to have anyone reliably stick. If I don't have any luck finding new maintainer(s) in the next 6 months or so, it's likely I'll mark these projects as in maintenance mode only and archive the repos.
The major libraries - mux (https://github.com/gorilla/mux), schema (https://github.com/gorilla/schema), handlers (https://github.com/gorilla/handlers), and sessions (https://github.com/gorilla/sessions), are all reasonably mature libraries, but ongoing stewardship around bug triage, feature enhancements, and potential "version 2.0s" are all possibilities.
* Have a demonstrated history of OSS contributions. This is important, as you need to be trustworthy: _no_ maintainer is better than an adversarial maintainer!
* Ideally, you actively contribute for 3-6 months, I merge after you review, and you gain the commit bit on the relevant repos after that period and/or active engagement on your part.
* I transition you to admin of the project.
> Note: I don't expect this to be quick or easy - the websocket library, with 16k stars & 15k unique clones per week, has been looking for a new maintainer for 3.5+ years, and has yet to have anyone reliably stick. If I don't have any luck finding new maintainer(s) in the next 6 months or so, it's likely I'll mark these projects as in maintenance mode only and archive the repos.
Please reply on GitHub if you're interested in getting involved: https://github.com/gorilla/mux/issues/659
Cheers,
Matt
Brian Candler
Dec 12, 2021, 1:13:13 PM12/12/21
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> _no_ maintainer is better than an adversarial maintainer!
That can be read two ways, and I read it the wrong way at first :-)
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