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mikehardy commented 3 years ago

Per https://github.com/hieuvp/react-native-fingerprint-scanner/issues/178#issuecomment-831643755

Not sure if there is anything else you want to put in here?

I can think of two things that would be useful at least, but everything's optional it's open source right?

how you'll hand over the repo:

Typically it would be via transferring ownership (so issues / PRs stay intact). Highest value Or you could transfer to a new organization and then add new owners, or perhaps you are simply done with it and the suggestion is "just fork it and carry on, I'll add a comment if people adopt your repo"

how you'd prefer to be contacted for someone that wants to take it over

an issue asking, or a couple accepted PRs or whatever

Either way cheers - you have a popular repo and quite a few users, totally natural to move on

For my part, if you created an organization ('react-native-fingerprint-scanner' perhaps, with 'react-native-fingerprint-scanner' in it) where you were owner, and you added me as a role that could add collaborators I would not commit to programming time on it but I would respond to issues / merge reasonable+obvious things for forwards-compatibility and petition all issue/PR participants to become contributors to keep it alive. Just enough so it was alive for the next motivated maintainer essentially

phillbaker commented 2 years ago

👋 hey @mikehardy, sorry for not seeing this sooner. Thanks for the offer of help! I don't have admin permissions on this project, so I can't add you as a maintainer or do any of the transfers suggested. @hieuvp would have to help out on that.

hieuvp commented 2 years ago

Hi @mikehardy, thank you for being supportive in this open source project so far, I have added you into maintainer list. If you have any other suggestion, please let me know.

mikehardy commented 2 years ago

Ah great - I've got a few other things cooking at the moment, however, in general breathing new life into a repo involves a general idea of "making maintenance as easy as possible, and get a rhythm of releases going for users"

automated semantic release is then a #1 priority so that maintenance and release is reduced to PR review, the real mental work of maintenance
automated CI then becomes more important to automate PR review as much as possible
honestly, that's about it

So the next time I pass through here, or if anyone wants to propose a PR (:pray: !) I'll see about documenting current release process and adding a semantic release bot like exist in lots of react-native repos,

@hieuvp if you have not granted me access to edit repo secrets + add a bot user, that will be necessary in order to configure automated semantic release

hieuvp commented 2 years ago

Hey @mikehardy, just sent you a private email. I am happy to connect.

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