Owlcarousel2: RFC: Repo Takeover

[daviddeutsch]

Hey everybody,

So - I'm the new guy and there's a lot of work to be done. Let's get to it:

1. Pull Request Backlog
Getting through all the PRs, considering them and asking the right questions will be my priority. I'll probably have to get some community insight on a bunch of them, though, since I'm not confident enough to call big architectural shots, yet.

2. Issue Backlog
This has a number of request types that I want to handle thusly:

2.1. Very old Support Requests
I'm going to assume that anybody with a request that is older than two weeks has probably already found a solution or isn't interested in a solution anymore, so I'll close those issues outright, with a notice to this entry here, so that people know what's going on (and, if need be, open a fresh issue).

2.2 Recent and Future Support Requests
I fully support the original intent of the issue tracker as outlined in the projects guidelines for contributing. Support requests don't really belong here, it's not YOUR issues, it's issues with the code - bugs, feature wishes etc. - so I'll be redirecting people to Stack Overflow a lot, although I probably cannot handle the fully support load over there.

2.3 Feature Requests
Man, there's a lot of great feature requests and discussions hidden in the issues here. Uncovering them and putting them all on a map will be a lot of work. (Note: #1309 is where it's at)

2.4 Ancient Planning
There are a bunch of very old (dating back to 2014) feature requests and discussions in general that I'll have to revisit and probably narrow down to a few canonical threads.

3. General Project handling
There are a number of long-standing issues that have caused confusion, from the transition V1 to V2 to the situation with the project domain.

If there is anything you'd like to contribute, voice opinions etc. - just let me know!

[Marc-pi]

can we thank you ?!? :-)
thanks you for taking over, glad to see some moves there

[daviddeutsch]

Not at all, I'm happy to be of service.

[oktalk]

:+1:

[daviddeutsch]

Working, working, working through those issues. Down to 465 from roughly 500.

Also: I've released a 2.1.0 version to have a clean slate to move forward from. It has all the recent fixes.

[nebrot]

I've released a 2.1.0 version to have a clean slate to move forward from. It has all the recent fixes.

Have you a changelog for 2.1.0 (beside commit history)?
http://owlcarousel2.github.io/OwlCarousel2/docs/support-changelog.html

[daviddeutsch]

@nebrot I'll try putting one together for the changelog and also the /releases here on GitHub.

Note to self: Probably want to use a cleaned up log to get the gist done, with some command like:

git rev-list e5aa7762f8cc1650ce05e2eaa3d118b0ee867bee..a363380b2839ab15e75772b59a16352a11a78333 --pretty=format:%b --no-merges