Nativefier: ⚠ Read before asking: Nativefier is unmaintained, we need your help! ⚠

[ronjouch]

Hello. This project is a hobby with only one maintainer at the wheel, me, these days barely using Nativefier, looking at issues once in a blue moon, and merging the occasional Pull Request during spare time.

• Feature requests: do not expect new features (see manpower comment above) and do not expect Nativefier to fill every niche feature provided by a full-blown browser. A big part of Nativefier's minimalist appeal is precisely that it's not a full-blown browser!
  Still convinced you want something? Build it. If you don't have the time/will/expertise to build it and are sure you want to file an issue, then take the time to write a concise & clear title / description; I'll leave the issue open and maybe someday someone will take a stab at it.
• Bugs reports: do not expect "customer support"-style interaction; we need you to investigate as much as possible before opening an issue: try to narrow it as much as possible, provide the minimum details requested by the issue template, offer intuitions, a reproducible public website & scenario, etc: help us help you 🙂, contributors are not wizards and do not read your mind. Of course, the best you can provide is code, PR very welcome.

Finally, that goes without saying: contributions welcome! If you have the skills and time, consider helping, with issue triaging or code, once or regularly. The maintainer is you. Triaged issues: bugs, feature requests. Nativefier needs more hands!

Users, thanks for your interest, and contributors: thanks for the help 🙂!

_{Text inspired by uBlock's CONTRIBUTING.md.}

[isaac-martin]

@ronjouch is there any way to add some maintainer(s) to the nativefier-icons repo? I can take on the work on that..

[isaac-martin]

I may need to fork / host to get it going again - but happy to do so

[ronjouch]

@ronjouch is there any way to add some maintainer(s) to the nativefier-icons repo? I can take on the work on that..

@isaac-martin thanks for chiming in! I'm not active in any way in that repo, please get in touch with @jiahaog .

[isaac-martin]

@ronjouch understandable - @jiahaog has gone MIA.

[saulocastelo]

Sooooo let's help! How can I help? Fork and submit pull requests?

[ronjouch]

Sooooo let's help! How can I help? Fork and submit pull requests?

@saulocastelo yup, PRs welcome! Look at the issues with activity/votes if you need inspiration 🙂.

[saulocastelo]

@ronjouch how can i assign an issue for me?

[ronjouch]

how can i assign an issue for me?

@saulocastelo don't, just work on something that speaks to you and submit a PR 🙂. It's pretty quiet here, there's veeeeery little chance someone would submit a PR at the same time for the same issue.

[mxdpeep]

I try to answer questions if I know the answer 👍
I have come over Nativefier several hours ago and it works for me...

[voltechs]

@ronjouch There are a few PRs ready to go. As per this issue/request for PRs, can we get some support in merging these in? It's a cool project. I've found one of the best ways to keep an Open Source project alive is to pull in contributions from members of the community.

[ronjouch]

There are a few PRs ready to go. As per this issue/request for PRs, can we get some support in merging these in? It's a cool project. I've found one of the best ways to keep an Open Source project alive is to pull in contributions from members of the community.

@voltechs thanks for the ping. But there aren't so many PRs ready to go, and for each of them there is a reason not to merge it. Also, it was my mistake to have them rotting around rather than closing them after a long time without news from the author; it's just that it doesn't feel good closing PRs.

I just looked at them: merged one, closed a few (3 I think) stale-since-long ones missing fixes/changes/doc, remains four: three with requested changes, and one breaking CI.

[voltechs]

@ronjouch I totally agree/feel ya (closing PRs)! Thanks for the housekeeping efforts. I'm trying to rouse the authors where applicable to move them along.