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Idea: Tool to help folks find a co-maintainers for a project #3

Open patcon opened 6 years ago

patcon commented 6 years ago

I've recently realized that I really love helping to re-energize projects that are suffering from maintainer distraction. Stuff like this: https://github.com/slack-go/slack/issues/207

There are all these rules of thumb that i've started to discover for all the steps of:

  1. creating the issue, and asking consent
  2. researching potential co-maintainers
  3. kickstarting tools that will help them work together effectively

I admit that I've started to wonder whether this could be automated a little bit. Not that I would want a bot to manage the relationship building -- that's best done by people, I feel -- but perhaps a tool could help that person research and find good candidates

Examples include:

Anyhow, obviously there are tons of heuristics to talk about, but I'm curious whether someone like yourself (or this community) might be interested in riffing on ideas :)

Anyhow, thanks very much for your consideration!

Related: https://github.com/isaacs/github/issues/167

cc: @bkeepers (because i think this might be up your alley)

patcon commented 6 years ago

cc: @coddingtonbear

RichardLitt commented 6 years ago

@patcon This is an awesome idea! I totally agree with you. Thanks for posting here.

I think that using name-your-contributors might work, for finding recent activity on a repository. I'm not sure how I'd use this at scale, though.

What would you say to a public video call to discuss this?

@gr2m What do you think about this?

patcon commented 6 years ago

I'm down! Thanks for the receptiveness :)

I'm a little swamped until a civic hackathon I'm helping with on March 3. Can we pick up the thread after that?

gr2m commented 6 years ago

I love the idea in general! I don't have much time to help right now myself though. But this is great. Maybe one comment is that if you perceive a project to be hostile from past discussions, I would not necessarily focus on folks underrepresented in tech for the risk of exposing them to that.

You mentioned you did that before? Maybe write about your experiences so far?

Not that I would want a bot to manage the relationship building -- that's best done by people, I feel -- but perhaps a tool could help that person research and find good candidates

I very much support that. There is a lack of tools for community management and I think @mntnr is the place to build these tools together :)

patcon commented 6 years ago

if you perceive a project to be hostile from past discussions, I would not necessarily focus on folks underrepresented in tech for the risk of exposing them to that.

:100: GREAT POINT

RichardLitt commented 6 years ago

After March 3rd works well for me. I am traveling until then, too. :)

You mentioned you did that before? Maybe write about your experiences so far?

I agree with this! If you'd like to write a post on Medium, I can add it to the Maintainer collection (currently in dev), and we can blast it out. Would that sound like a good idea, to you?

RichardLitt commented 6 years ago

Hey! Let's circle back to this! Want to have a public video call sometime this week?

patcon commented 6 years ago

I'm just about to go mobile at midnight tonight for some travel, but I think I'll be settled in NYC by Friday..? If you can be forgiving of a possible deferral, I'd love to say Friday morning? :) Pls do suggest a time before 11am ET! :tada:

RichardLitt commented 6 years ago

I can't do the morning on Friday! Are you free in the afternoon sometime next week?

gr2m commented 6 years ago

@RichardLitt I could do a call around our weekly checkin time

patcon commented 6 years ago

Cool! When's that @gr2m? Couldn't find any mention of check-in calls for community

RichardLitt commented 6 years ago

Thursdays! We could make that public, too, actually. 6:00EST on Thursday afternoons. :) Does that time work for you, @patcon?

gr2m commented 6 years ago

that's 6pm :)

patcon commented 6 years ago

omg, I'm the worst. I was travelling. I am sad 🙁 that I dropped the ball here, but I have it in my calendar repeating forever. What's the call link?

RichardLitt commented 6 years ago

@patcon Why does that make you sad? You're all good! Hope traveling was fun. :) @gr2m is out this week, and I can't make it today. I'll email you to arrange a better time.