Show HN: I built a platform for projects to find maintainers

by garritfra • 4 years ago

49 9 4 years ago

A few days ago, someone I follow asked the community for help maintaining his side-project, 512kb.club. This got me thinking.

There are loads of maintainers out there feeling burnt out, but they can't abandon their project since people are depending on the project to be maintained.

In an effort to combat this, I built a website that lists projects looking for new maintainers. It's still quite empty and has some rough edges. Any feedback is very welcome!

cxr• 4 years ago

Baked[1]: Code Shelter <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19199647>

1. https://www.halfbakery.com/editorial/help.html#mfd

eliaspro• 4 years ago

There's also Adoptoposs [1] which basically serves the same purpose.

[1] https://adoptoposs.org/

city41• 4 years ago

There are loads of maintainers out there feeling burnt out, but they can't abandon their project since people are depending on the project to be maintained.

I think we need to change the expectation here. If the maintainer is doing so with their free time and is not being compensated, it's perfectly fine for them to take a break, reduce support, or stop altogether. I hope maintainers know that.

rmbyrro2• 4 years ago

Are you looking for a maintainer for seeking-maintainers.net?

Sorry, just kidding, couldn't help myself...

pabs32• 4 years ago

You joke, but that has happened to similar platforms in the past; unmaintained-free-software.org was a wiki performing a similar function, but it became unmaintained and shut down.

rmbyrro2• 4 years ago

I wonder if this blockchain thing could be a solution to this problem. Having that DAO thing taking care of these projects. Users buy tokens to fund the project and provide input. I don't know, the idea occurred to me now...

It's a bit frustrating that we can't even solve lack of maintenance on projects that aim to solve... lack of maintenance!

captn3m0• 4 years ago

GitHub already tracks the topic: https://github.com/topics/maintainer-wanted

Might be easier if someone could curate the topic on the GitHub Explore page instead: https://github.com/github/explore/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING.md

Perhaps some conventions around a main issue or the README linking to the relevant issue (with the repository being labelled)

garritfra• 4 years ago

Thanks for the hint! This can probably be integrated quite well into the site.

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