Ask HN: Which Open Source projects are looking for maintainers?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20767207

by emadehsan • 7 years ago

17 9 7 years ago

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High impact Open Source projects in dire need of maintainers / core collaborators?

Are there any lists maintained of such projects?

eesmith2• 7 years ago

https://www.codeshelter.co/

"Code Shelter is a collective of volunteer software developers that aims to help with maintaining popular open source projects whose authors need a hand or don't have the time to maintain them any more."

0x2c8• 7 years ago

Thank you for this! Looks like a good starting point, and a nice community.

eesmith2• 7 years ago

HN discussion at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19199647 .

emadehsan3• 7 years ago

https://github.com/search?q=looking+for+maintainer

Yields some interesting results

emadehsan3• 7 years ago

https://github.com/pickhardt/maintainers-wanted

Found this list via above search

Jefro1182• 7 years ago

I started putting together a list here: https://www.sourcesort.com/zombies. Only a few projects on there at the moment though. I found projects which had 10 or more unresponded issues created since the project was last updated.

emadehsan3• 7 years ago

Interesting. So are these the projects you came across or did you establish some way to find them?

Jefro1182• 7 years ago

I used the GitHub API search endpoint to find them and some extra code to filter them - searching for projects last updated more than 3 months ago with more than 5 open issues and more than 2/3 of open issues having had no response from a maintainer.

I was surprised by how few projects turned up actually, so I'll probably rethink this and update the list soon.

sven_n• 7 years ago

https://blogs.apache.org/logging/entry/apache_log4net_needs_...

Ask HN: Which Open Source projects are looking for maintainers?

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