Requesting Additional Maintainers

[deankarn]

Hey all 👋

It's been a pleasure maintaining this package for nearly a decade, with the help of the community and some special people, and seeing all the value it brings to the community ❤️

This project though has grown large enough that more than a few people are required to properly support the community. I unfortunately don't have the same free time that I once did, have spread myself maybe too thin maintaining multiple open source projects in Go, Rust, etc.. and am unable to keep up with the influx of questions, PR's and issues,, but want this package to continue to grow and thrive for everyone!

To that end this is a call for maintainers to help ensure the community is supported in a proper and timely manner!

To set some expectation before throwing your hat in the ring, because it's not all sunshine and roses, as they say:

• Backward compatibility and breaking changes MUST be taken extremely seriously, especially since this package is used to prevent bad data from entering systems. These include:
  • Code changes
  • go.mod dependency and min version changes
  • New features
  • Licensing of dependencies.
• Semantic versioning must be adhered to, for reasons above.
• Interactions with the community must be respectful and helpful.
• Ideally been working with and have good understanding of the Go language.

Thanks you in advance

Update: Additional Details

For those wanting to get involved please reply in a comment here and I can start adding people to the Triage team. Once I can see a few contributions, reviews and approvals of PR's then will be able to promote to full maintainers write permissions.

[nodivbyzero]

Hi Dean,

Thank you for your transparency and for all the time and effort you’ve dedicated to maintaining this package over the years!

I’d like to offer my help in maintaining this package. I’m confident I can contribute meaningfully and help ensure it continues to grow and serve the community effectively.

Please let me know how I can proceed to get involved and support the package.

[banjoh]

Thanks for all the great work you've done @deankarn

[annaelizabeth2019]

I would be interested in working on this package! :D

[turisap]

I would like to participate in this project as well.

[chipaca]

Hi!

I've been using this package for a few years now, at work and in personal projects. I'd like to help with maintaining it if that's alright.

Thank you for everything,

[deankarn]

@chipaca @turisap @annaelizabeth2019 sorry for the delay, I’ve added you to the triage team.

[turisap]

so what is the best way to start out? just to pick up any issue or an MR and fix / review it?

[ardbp]

I have been using this package for last couple years now, I would also like to participate in maintaining this project if its appropriate. Thank you!

[nodivbyzero]

Hello,
If you're interested in maintaining the project, the best way to start is by contributing actively. You can review pull requests, test new changes, provide feedback, submit your own PRs, improve documentation, and help answer questions in the project's discussion board.
Encouraging others to contribute is also a great way to support the community.

[ardbp]

Sounds good Thank you!

[MadsRC]

@deankarn I'd love to help out!

[divyanshu-tiwari]

@deankarn I would love to contribute as well.