Gitmoji: 🎉 Time to start a stronger collaboration

[johannchopin]

Hello all 😉,

I'm a big fan of this project that I use every day to make my commits more visually sortable thanks to emojis. That's why I quickly devoted time to improving it (#420, #422). I then realized that the response time was excessively long...

My PR is more than a month old and there is no follow-up, not even feedback after several ping to @carloscuesta.

I then observed that I was not the only one and that the majority of the issues as well as the PRs did not even have a single comment from an admin like #387, #390, #326, #376, #380, ... After so much silence I finally had to put a gitmoji fork online myself to get some of the nice features proposed.

The problem is to see such an interesting project marred only by a lack of investment from the admins. It's quite normal not to have time to devote to this project but it would be wise to develop a stronger community through the contribution of collaborators to make things more dynamic.

This topic of adding contributors has already be mentionned in the issue #345 from Oct 2019. Since then nothing special has changed and there's always so much PR and issues open. Moreover, the current Community side leaves something to be desired like when this issue #421 was instantly closed down by @carloscuesta. Himself who said in #345:

The reason why there are a lot of PRs and Issues without any reaction is because I think I should not be the only person deciding based on my criteria if something should be added as a gitmoji or not. I try to wait and see upvotes on the issues to decide if something is worth enough to be added.

So if things don't really change or not fast enough, then maybe it's time to create a new platform where the community feel really involved. I propose to create a new git depot for gitmoji where the number of admins will be higher in order to make this project more reactive. This will allow ideas to be dealt with more quickly and the community will really decide.

So here's what I wanted to get your opinion on this idea. Is it a good one or not? 😄 Would you like to get more involved in gitmoji? 😍

[carloscuesta]

Hey @johannchopin I added you as a collaborator of the project, if anyone wants to help with this I'm open on giving access to it

[vhoyer]

I want to help, tho I don't intend (right now at least) on making code alterations, I can help with code review and discussions :D

I also very passionate about using gitmoji on my git log (you can see that in my log from my dotfiles) :D

[carloscuesta]

Hey @vhoyer sorry for not seeing this I added you also as a collaborator of the repository 😊

[vhoyer]

Should we pin this issue?

[KaKi87]

I think yes.

[carloscuesta]

Hey @johannchopin and @vhoyer I gave you publish access to the gitmojis npm package, so you can release versions 👍

[josecatalani]

Hey i want to contribute too!

[johannchopin]

@josecatalani great so just fork the project and do some PR :rocket:

[vhoyer]

nice, @josecatalani, there some issues here that are kinda missing input :D you could start by adding your opinion on them :D

[Roro0]

yeal!!!!

[KaKi87]

I subscribed to the entire repo so I get notified for everything but perhaps I missed some since I receive a lot of notifications, so could you tell us which issues needs opinion in priority ?

[johannchopin]

@KaKi87 Probably most of the opened issues and PR 👍

[vhoyer]

Nice, @KaKi87, thanks for lending gitmoji a bit of your time :heart: very appreciated. (Btw, @johannchopin, this post really did work, right? :smile:)

[johannchopin]

You're right @vhoyer 😉 It's great to see more activity on the project 👍

[JulianVolodia]

@josecatalani will You address open issues as You wanted? :)

[carloscuesta]

Hello! :wave:

At this point I think we solved most of our stale issues and prs! Thanks to everyone who helped and raised the hand on this issue offering help ❤️

I think there's no particular reason to keep this issue opened and pinned on top of the issues list at the repository

What do you think about this? @vhoyer @johannchopin

Should we unpin and close the issue? 🙏🏼

[johannchopin]

Yes I agree on that 👍

[carloscuesta]

I'm going to propose active people on the repository to be introduced as collaborators too! 😊

Closing this issue doesn't means that we're forgetting about this

As it makes sense to you @johannchopin, I'm closing it then ❤️