help me bring life back to Perkeep

[Alexandre Viau]

Hello all,

I know that maintaining open source projects can take a lot of energy.
Reviewing pull requests in particular takes time and the investment
may not be worth it if we are mentoring contributors that don't last.
I'd like to help bring life back to Perkeep dev, but it would be hard
to do without existing Perkeep contributors.

Would one of the existing devs accept to mentor me in exchange of me
promising to contribute in the long term? I would really like to get
the ball rolling and create an active community around Perkeep. I am
able to invest a lot of time and energy into this and I think that
Perkeep is worth it.

Some of my starting goals would be to increase Perkeep's usability:
- Possibly start hosting builds
* Possibly including small utilities like systemd service files for
ease of use
- Improve the high-level config
- Improve the web interface

Lets keep this short, I'd like to suggest some starting points:

1. I have opened a couple small PR/Questions on GitHub. Can anyone
take a look at them?

2. Would you be willing to give me access to manage issues on GitHub
so that I can help maintain the backlog? It's hard to help doing this
without access, I'd basically be pigning you guys in all issues saying
"I think we can close this". I will ask if I am not sure, don' worry.

3. Want to chat/connect? I am:
- @aviau on #perkeep
- @aviau on github https://github.com/aviau
- @aviau:matrix.org on matrix
- av...@debian.org
- alex...@alexandreviau.net

If you mentor me, I promise to stay long enough to mentor many others
;) It'll be worth it!

Cheers,

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Alexandre Viau
alex...@alexandreviau.net

[Brad Fitzpatrick]

Sounds great!

Why don't we have a meeting and go over bugs together and come up with a plan?

Looks like you're in Montreal, so we overlap well time-zone wise. Want to pick a time? See https://calendly.com/bradfitz

- Brad

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[Alexandre Viau]

yay :)

I scheduled you for today. See you then, I'll be on IRC at that time.

Also available for video if needed.

Cheers,

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[Anssi Porttikivi]

I have also promised myself to start working on this someday. Maybe now is the time. (I got fired.)

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[Alexandre Viau]

The IRC topic says weekly syncs on wednesday at 10:00 PST. It's on my
calendar and I should be available at that time every week.

Feel free to drop by and say hello :)

Cheers,

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[ginabythebay]

How is this going?

I've been poking around perkeep again and am running into things that could be fixed.  I'm just checking if it is worth me spending the time to create PRs/issues/discussions.

At the moment most of my poking around is in the scanning cabinet code.

[Michael Hoffmann]

Hey,

I currently try to contribute to perkeep regularly as time permits! FWIW i definitley think that its worth spending time on PRs/Issues and Discussions!

[q.shanahan]

I'm curious about the same thing. I've tried posting here but have gotten stuck "pending approval". I'm interested in using perkeep more as an API or an application backend/db, but the docs on the HTTP API are light. I've learned a fair amount from inspecting the source though. If there was a meetup or discussion happening I'd be interested in attending.

[Gina White]

I’d love to see more docs for the http api, I have found that to be fairly opaque so far.  Not sure if you saw this pr…I did figure out query a little bit: https://github.com/perkeep/perkeep/pull/1640

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