Call for participations

[38]

Hi all, a lot of people asked about if this repo is still maintained - yes or no. I am still have the willing to maintain it but I don't think I will have enough time and power to maintain as I previously did.

So I am currently thinking about making plotters as a community maintained crate and I definitely want to play a rule still, but I feel it's better to let a team take over the maintenance and I'm going to do as much as I can to support the crate.

So I am wonder if anyone who is interested be a part of the maintenance team. Please let me know if you are interested in that.

During this time, I am going to keep an eye until the maintenance team is running.

Thanks in advance!

FYI: For more discussions please read issue #333 and #341

[bronzelle]

I'd like to participate!

[aeroaks]

I would like to participate

[ahenshaw]

I can help.

[38]

Thanks everyone, glad to see so many people interested in this. I don't have any experience on organizing such a team. Here's what I am planning to do.

The first stage, I am going to triage the issues and mark any issues as help needed. And anyone who wants to help, feel free reply the issue or submit a PR. And I will keep an eye on merging those PRs.

The next stage, I am going to add more people as the member of this organization and at this point we can establish a stable team for maintenance work.

Finally, I will grant more people write permission to the repository and gradually hand off the code review and merge responsibility to the team.

Let me know if you guys have any ideas.

Thanks!

[chadelofson]

I would definitely like to help where I can as well.

[facorread]

Hi! I would like to contribute as well.

[pricesmith]

I would like to participate as well.

[daniellivingston]

Likewise, I'd be interested in helping maintain and contribute.

[jonaspleyer]

Is the project still open for contributions? I would love to participate.

[AaronErhardt]

@jonaspleyer technically, yes, plotters still needs more maintainers. In fact, there's already a small team of 4 members in the plotters organization, but I'm the only one that's at least semi-active at the moment. The biggest problem is however, that @38 is completely inactive again. @38 still holds all important permissions, so nobody can add new members and even members can only manage a few repository within this organization. Not to mention that only @38 can publish releases on crates.io.

I hope @38 will eventually return to this project for a short period to make it actually future-proof. Until then, there's not much anyone else can do. In the meantime, I can at least merge your pull request though :)

[jonaspleyer]

Thanks for letting me know.

In the meantime, I can at least merge your pull request though :)

Don't feel pressured in giving my PR any more attention than others ;-) I hope that I can find the time to write some more documentation. Right now there are some deadlines ahead of me but I hope to be more active in the future.

[cszach]

I would love to help contribute and maintain!

[jaredmcqueen]

as an FYI - the backends each need participants too. For example, plotters-canvas https://github.com/plotters-rs/plotters-canvas won't even compile because of stale pull requests. @38

[AaronErhardt]

@jaredmcqueen I don't understand which stale PR causes plotters-canvas to not compile. If it doesn't compile, it seems to me that there's no PR to fix this yet.

As a general update on this topic:

I have now ownership of the plotters organization and most plotters crates on crates.io. I don't have time to actively develop features for plotters, but I review PRs to help to keep the project alive. This means, if you want to help, please send pull requests and if I haven't reviewed it after a couple of days, please ping me (@AaronErhardt).