Find more maintainers for ethabi

[vkgnosis]

The ethabi crate in particular is important to the rust ethereum ecosystem but it has many outstanding issues and PRs which has caused it to for example be forked with more patches applied like at https://github.com/gakonst/ethabi and I have personally also needed those patches for https://github.com/gnosis/ethcontract-rs and I imagine rust-web3 would benefit too.

My guess is (and please correct me if wrong) that there is currently no driving force to push bigger changes like abiv2 support. Could we find more maintainers? Who currently has write access to the repo? How should we agree on what can be merged?

Some people from Gnosis including myself probably have some capacity to review and make PRs.

[vkgnosis]

@gakonst tagging you because I linked your fork but that probably doesn't give you a notification. Would getting ethabi to roughly the state of your fork allow you to move back to using it?

[vkgnosis]

@vorot93 @kirk-baird you are the two members I see of the rust-ethereum organization so I thought I'd ping you directly.

[kirk-baird]

Hey, you're right seems this repo hasn't had PRs merged for a while. I'm not sure who was previously in charge of this repo.

I haven't worked on this repo before I'm in the rust-ethereum org for work on Eth2. Though I do a lot of work on solidity and Eth1 so have a solid understanding of ABI's and rust. I'm happy to do review some PRs though won't have time for active development of significant features e.g. ABIv2.

[vkgnosis]

Update: We've added @nlordell and myself as maintainers for this crate and we're planning on merging outstanding PRs. If other people are interested, feel free to write here.

[gakonst]

That's great! If all the patches from my fork were applied and you folks take over maintaining it, I'd be happy to switch to the original. I am rebased on master, so should be easy.

[gakonst]

@vkgnosis thanks for the work so far! Curious if you're planning on cutting a new minor release soon?

[nlordell]

I think we're trying to figure out Crates.io access 🙈.

[gakonst]

@vkgnosis @nlordell Any chance we can get a new release? I bumped on the bug which is fixed on this commit

[nlordell]

Should have a release https://crates.io/crates/ethabi/14.1.0