Does this project need a new maintainer?

[qtzar]

There hasn't been any updates in over 6 months and there are a lot of outstanding PRs and issues.

[ejwill]

@qtzar how would we go about doing that?

[Potherca]

The first step would be to reach out to the original maintainer and ask them to add other people as co-maintainer.

If GitHub is not responded to, whichever other channels will need to be found and used.

The issue is usually finding other people who have both the knowledge, motivation and time required to (help) maintain an open-source product.

Related: #29 (comment) by @thomvaill

[evanerwee]

Let's start the process. I'm very interested in helping where I can. My team did look at the code purely from a maintenance perspective and they agree that it will take about 3 weeks to update dependencies and get to a 'more' stable Node18 release, but a while from 'perfect'. The first step is to find new maintainers.

[Potherca]

There is a contact form on https://bluebricks.dev/ that might yield results and we could try https://twitter.com/thomvaill (although that seems mostly silent?) or https://www.linkedin.com/in/tvaillant/

If you feel serious enough about investing future energy and time on this, the next logical step would be to create a community organization for log4brains. However, it looks like that username is already taken on GitHub so another name might be needed.

We could start/open a GH discussion there (organisation level) to discuss what needs doing, keep ourselves and others informed of progress, compose a message for @thomvaill, etc.

[evanerwee01]

The project represents a simple and straightforward way to create ADRs. It is not the end-of-the-world to create another avenue. What I do not know is the consensus. Was the project helpful, was it used? I will see if I can get some questions answered.

[evanerwee01]

Sorry, I have a dozen GitID's thanks to my organization. Just authenticated using my work ID. Stick to evanerwee, that is my private ID.

[philCryoport]

@evanerwee / @evanerwee01 / @Potherca was a community fork ever created? If so, where can I find it?

[thomvaill]

Hello !
Thank you so much for your interest in the project and I apologize a lot for being silent the last months.
To be honest with you my wife and I had our first child last September, and that's one of the reasons I did not manage to dedicate some time to the project.
I've already been contacted by email by a contributor who volunteered to help maintaining the project.
I really appreciate your contributions and obviously some help would be very welcome to help me maintain the project.
I will try to dedicate some time by the end of the year to review the pending PRs and organize the project in a way I am not a bottleneck anymore.
By the way, if you have some recommendations or documentation on this topic, you're very welcome.

[philCryoport]

Hi @thomvaill congrats on your first child! When my wife and I had twins, our lives basically stopped, so fully understand.

Did that contributor you mention above ever accept the role of maintaining the project? There's 11 open PRs as of this writing...

[thomvaill]

Hi @philCryoport thank you for your support :-)
I didn't have the opportunity to talk again with this contributor since our last conversation.
I am currently working on adapting the CI/CD of the project to be able to release RC candidates automatically, so it will allow us to merge the merge requests more quickly, so that our power users can test the RC candidate.
After that, I will open the discussion again with potential mainteners