React-autosuggest: This project needs additional maintainers

[fatso83]

As is evident from the number of downloads and issues in the tracker, it's clear that this package is both useful and popular. But having close to 200 issues and 20 pull requests shows that you (@moroshko) might need a hand in the custodianship of the project!

From experience with many other open source projects, it's a good idea to invite a couple of "lieutenants" on board to help with the mundane tasks. It doesn't mean you lose control of the project, but you get valuable help when the size of the project has grown beyond what one guy can fathom to support in his spare time.

My suggestion is that you add a "Help wanted" section to the top of the readme where you ask for co-maintainers and start tagging issues with labels like "Help wanted", "Difficulty: easy", etc to get people helping you out. It's nice getting some help :-)

[annjawn]

Wondering the same if maintainers are needed, looks like a popular library but hasn't been updated in a year or so. Will be happy to contribute.

[t-fritsch]

@moroshko, you did great with this project (thanks a lot !) and I think everybody can easily understand you got a lot of work with other projects and no time to maintain this one.
But it would be such a shame to see this awesome lib collapse given the number of people who are willing to help (see the 26 PR, it means something) and the user base that keeps growing even after this no-commit-year (https://www.npmtrends.com/react-autosuggest).
As suggested by @fatso83, a call for maintainers in the README could be a good starting point :)

[moroshko]

Hey guys,
Thanks for the warm words!
I indeed struggle to find time to maintain this project, and would love to get help.
Please reach out to me on Twitter @moroshko if you use react-autosuggest in your apps and have the capacity to push this project to the next level. It needs some ❤️.

[fatso83]

I already bit off more than I can chew with Sinon, so not for me, but I have tried sharing the call for maintainers :-)

[ptolemybarnes]

I am also willing to help with this.

[aberezkin]

Hi everyone.

I'm now taking an effort to revive (#726) this project. @moroshko gave me collaboration rights so I'll try my best to make this library at least up to date with the mainstream. Nevertheless, as @fatso83 mentioned react-autosuggest is too big to be maintained by a single guy with some spare time (which I am) so I'll leave the call for maintainers in readme for some time.

For now the plan is:

1. Fix npm install && npm test (which is done in #726 which will be merged soon after some minor edits).
2. Update all dependencies and build pipeline
3. Release a major version (since react-autosuggest is not compatible with old versions of react already)
4. Configure new build and deploy pipeline using github actions
5. And finally look through all of these issues and PRs

Also here's some things I would like to be done:

• merge react-autowhatever into this repo to make lib management easier
• get rid of react-themeable in favor of something more up to date (@moroshko advices in favor of "headless UI" used in react-table and downshift)

If you have any suggestions please contact me (@arkberezkin on twitter) or fill an issue in this repo. Also if you are willing to help please do!

I hope together we can build a strong community around this repo.

[aberezkin]

Since there's a call for maintainers in readme I think it's ok to close that issue (at least to make a decrement in the issue counter 😅)

[judygab]

Hi! I'm happy to contribute as well. Have been using react-autosuggest for a year now.

[aberezkin]

Hi! @judygab. What would you like to work on? There's an issue with list of major activities around this repo #734. I'm doing the part about test with cypress, you can choose something you would like to do.

[judygab]

Hi! @judygab. What would you like to work on? There's an issue with list of major activities around this repo #734. I'm doing the part about test with cypress, you can choose something you would like to do.

Thanks! can I work on TS definitions? Also I created a PR a while ago if someone can take a look at it. #645

[aberezkin]

@judygab TS definitions would be great. Also I wouldn't stop on defenitions. It would be nice if you can integrate TS into build pipeline so we can gradually rewrite code base to TS.

[judygab]

@judygab TS definitions would be great. Also I wouldn't stop on defenitions. It would be nice if you can integrate TS into build pipeline so we can gradually rewrite code base to TS.

Yes sure, definitions would be just one of the steps.