Class-transformer: Project status (add maintainers?)

[weeco]

The issue:
There are 18 pull requests now, some of them fix bugs, significantly improve performance or simply improve the Readme. I consider some of these (e. g. https://github.com/typestack/class-transformer/pull/137) as quite important to merge. They have written tests, got a review and feedback as well. This fairly small pull request has been submitted 3 months ago and yet it hasn't been merged.

Suggestion:
This library is awesome and I still use it in new projects, however it is in need of maintenance. Could you add maintainers or give it a little more attention?

[jcudzich]

@pleerock is the creator of this library, but is mainly involved in the development of TypeORM. I think the class-transformer does not have any dedicated maintainers now.

[pleerock]

sorry guys but I don't have that much hands to maintain them all.

I would really appreciate if someone can take responsibility on this one. I remember last time @NoNameProvided wanted to do that, but not sure if he found enough time for it.

Please let me know if you want to maintain it with responsibility in a long term.

[lordazzi]

This is a very important project, would be nice if there was a maintainer at least for bugfix or for pull request code review

[pleerock]

yes but as you can see nobody is taking a responsibility. Lets just wait.

[MTschannett]

I would like to maintain this project. But I don't have any real expirience in maintaining such a big project.
But I think with a little starting help this shouldn't be a problem.

I'm using this library in a few projects and really like it. I would be happy to help maintaining this project.

Would this be okay for you @pleerock

[NoNameProvided]

Yeah, I am short on time nowadays, I hope I can get some time soon, but I can't give any promises.

[MTschannett]

If it is ok for both of you, I'd be happy to help.

[MTschannett]

ping @NoNameProvided @pleerock

[ahmadhsalim]

@pleerock I need some of those pull requests merged asap. If there's no one then I'm willing to maintain this project. I have to use this library in about at least 5 of my projects.

[nolazybits]

@pleerock I agree with @weeco and it seems there are at least 2 people keen to help. That would be awesome if we could see some movement :)

[weeco]

@pleerock Still no update :(

[MTschannett]

@pleerock I'd still like to help if you could give me access

[YGKtech]

Hmm, I was considering working on a PR to fix a compatibility issue I found with some key classes used in FireBase, but if there's nobody maintaining the project it's probably not worth my time to set something up right now.

[MTschannett]

@NoNameProvided @pleerock could we please add some maintainers? I'd happy be to start working on this project..

[NoNameProvided]

Status update: I will take a look this week at the PRs and also release a new routing-controllers version with these changes.

Edit: In the meantime if anyone here would like to help, I would appreciate pre-reviews on the PRs.

[weeco]

@NoNameProvided as requested I did a pre review and also tested it in a production environment, still this PR hasn't been merged yet:

https://github.com/typestack/class-transformer/pull/137

This project needs a fork or new maintainers.

[MTschannett]

@weeco if you want to help we could both maintain that fork.

I guess there won't be added new maintainers in the near future..

[cojack]

@MTschannett @weeco @NoNameProvided @YGKtech how about just fork it, rename it and go forward?

[MTschannett]

@cojack Sounds good to me . But i want at least a second maintainer. Otherwise we have this drama again.

Would you like to help?

[cojack]

@MTschannett @weeco @NoNameProvided @YGKtech wait before fork, I wrote to https://github.com/19majkel94 he is one of the ppl in organization, maybe he will add us as a maintainers if don't, then we will fork it.

[MTschannett]

@cojack I'm ok with this . This is also my preferred way.

[MichalLytek]

@cojack
Unfortunately, I'm only a member, not an owner, so I'm not capable of adding new peoples:

You should contact with @pleerock by mail or maybe by a PM on TypeORM's slack:
https://join.slack.com/t/typeorm/shared_invite/enQtNDQ1MzA3MDA5MTExLTFiNDEyOGUxZGQyYWIwOTA0NDQxODdkOGQ0OTUxNzFjYjUwY2E0ZmFlODc5OTYyYzAzNGM3MGZjYzhjYTBiZTY

[cojack]

Thanks @19majkel94 for so fast response, I ping @pleerock directly on the slack of TypeORM, we will se if he will respond anyhow.

[cojack]

Done, @pleerock gives me a access, so I'm now one of the two collaborators.
@MTschannett @weeco @NoNameProvided @YGKtech where now?

[MTschannett]

You can add me if you want . I would be glad to help. I'm glad if we could progress in this repo.

[cojack]

@MTschannett Invite sent, check link https://github.com/typestack/class-transformer/invitations

[MTschannett]

Thank you. I've accepted it already. I'm glad we can start working on this.

[cojack]

@MTschannett so Im trying to handle the issues, if you could help to solve them or close some, I will be glad.

[MTschannett]

Yes I got notified. I'll start working on the issues this afternoon

[MTschannett]

@cojack can we close this for now?

[cojack]

@MTschannett why not, if anyone else wanna to join, please write here and call @MTschannett and me ;)

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