Modernizr: State of the project?

[rejas]

Hi guys and girls,
love modernizr and how useful it is, but I guess not only I am wondering if this project still gets maintained? When people from the community close their own PR because they get no reaction in half a year (see https://github.com/Modernizr/Modernizr/pull/2229#issuecomment-356705934) something has to be done I guess.
Do you need help, new maintainer, people to review etc? In what way can we help?
Cheers, V

[ryanseddon]

Yes I'm definitely guilty of having no time to work on this.

Do you need help, new maintainer, people to review etc? In what way can we help?

We need all of this, any help to get this going again would be forever appreciated.

@patrickkettner do you have any input on this.

[ryanseddon]

I guess my first ask would be triaging the build up of issues and pull requests and seeing what needs to be done, updated or closed. This way we can have an overview on where we stand.

[patrickkettner]

@patrickkettner do you have any input on this.

Basically I had a kid and got a new job, and haven't had the chance to sit down and go through it all.

but the first step would be triaging open bugs, as @ryanseddon mentioned

[rejas]

@patrickkettner first of all: congrats to the kid, hope it comes bugfree in v1 :-)

as for helping triaging: i can only ask in the issues for more infos but closing is of course not yet in my power (as is adding labels). Issue #2232 would be something though you guys should answer: how can we contribute exactly, what procedure does a issue/bugfix/pr has to adhere to?

[rejas]

@patrickkettner @ryanseddon I am still wondering on how to proceed with reagrds to contributing. Should I make a list of PR that I deem worthy for a bugfix release?

[ryanseddon]

Yeah that makes sense, if you're keen and want to put in the work then I don't see why we couldn't make you a contributor to give you more control. @patrickkettner thoughts?

[rejas]

added my ideas in #2295

[rejas]

@ryanseddon I am still hoping this project isnt dead..

[rejas]

@ryanseddon @patrickkettner @doctyper as you three are the only responding to my requests since I started my interest in the Modernizr ecosystem could we finally have a discussion how you envision the future of this Modernizr-org here on github?

• Yes, Modernizr isnt as relevant as it used to be but it isnt finished yet. Neither in the sense that it isnt used anymore nor in the feature-complete sense as seen by the open PR for new tests.
• I am not sure myself if a v4 would be necessary (except when some groundbreaking stuff like es6 modules in https://github.com/Modernizr/Modernizr/pull/2108 is still on the table) but at least some more tests and fixes should be added.
• As for the community aspect: I am just short of quitting my contributions too seeing that nearly half a year has passed with some but slow progress. But for each PR and issue cropping up I have the impression I must poke each one again and again which is frustrating as hell.
• I do understand that you got real jobs and families too but lets invest some time in adding somebody to the team instead of having only 30% of the group reacting to issues and PRs. Or are there other reasons why the team is the size it is now?

Sorry, had to vent a little, hope I brought my points across. Have a good week.

[ryanseddon]

@rejas I've just added you as a collaborator, feel free to start actually doing stuff.

Apologies for not giving this any attention but I've burnt out on this project.

[ryanseddon]

You'll need to bug @patrickkettner for any access needed for pushing changes out

[rejas]

thanks a lot @ryanseddon I'll try to be worthy of your trust. will take alook at what could go into a new release and then try to get a hold of @patrickkettner have a nice day

[niksy]

Would also love to see this project updated and would like to work on this if possible!

[patrickkettner]

PRs welcome!

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[niksy]

@patrickkettner there are a lot of open PRs which can be reviewed and merged and @rejas has shown interest in maintaining the project, but it seems like he’s "stuck" with only collaboration but no pushing rights.

Should we focus on creating PRs and let other project managers handle all the publishing? Can we rely on core contributors to give feedback on time?

For example, there is a new issue regarding TLS certificate and it’s expiration. This possibly doesn’t give hope to anyone who wants to use Modernizr for their project.

[rejas]

@niksy I got the rights to push, the problem is publishing IMO. I'd love to get the page back online and adding changelogs for 3.6 with this PR Yes, unfortunalty only @patrickkettner is helping out from the original maintainers but he is busy with work / family which I dont blame him for, thats important).
But with those infrastructural problems getting a new release out seems unlikely in the near future. I hope after the summer holidays that gets better?

[niksy]

Yes, I completely understand issue with time, I’m in a similar situation myself!
But if we can all agree that this can become a point of project staleness, maybe core contributors can give more maintenance rights to people who have more time to work on the project, for now just to bring it "from the ground"?

[ryanseddon]

I don't think I even have permissions to publish so can't help you there.