React-native-orientation: Should we clone the project and maintain? What happened to Yamill?

[chrusart]

What I can see (LinkedIn) Yamill started work for Snap inc. and from that time not maintaining the project.

[dozel]

I think we should. The issues are at 56 and counting.

[cnshsliu]

Please, we should.

[dozel]

Alright, who's down to clone the project and maintain it? Not sure if I can fix all of these issues, but I'm definitely down to help.

[colinramsay]

The best way would be to get @yamill to transfer this project to a new owner or organisation because otherwise people will always continue to visit this (seemingly dead) repo.

I wonder if https://github.com/react-native-community could take it on?

[dozel]

@colinramsay the whole reason why this thread was started because @yamill is AWOL.

[colinramsay]

I realise that, but if we were to orchestrate a situation in which they just had to press a button to reassign ownership then they might be open to doing that. We'd be doing them a favour 😄

At the moment they may just be ignoring notifications but not totally uncontactable.

[ibussieres]

yamill-at-gmail.com according to his website, so who's picking this up ?

[hugohow]

+1

[colinramsay]

I'm emailing yamill now, will report back.

[colinramsay]

I'm in contact, we're just working out how to move this forward but we should have the ability to accept PRs, etc in some form over the next couple of days.

If anyone is willing to dedicate some time to help triage issues and PRs, please let me know below.

The intention is _not_ for me to become full-time owner, but I might do so temporarily while we work out where this project can live.

[wellyshen]

It seems not working on RN 0.42.0?

[ibussieres]

I'm on 0.42 and it's working.

[colinramsay]

Guys please don't derail this issue, there are plenty of others related to RN 0.42 compatibility:

https://github.com/yamill/react-native-orientation/issues/158

[wellyshen]

@ibussieres Did you use it for iOS simulator? Have you lock the device orientation through xcode settings?

[ibussieres]

@wellyshen answering in #158

[dozel]

@colinramsay hey, I'm willing to be a contributor and help fix issues. Did the transfer of ownership happen?

[colinramsay]

@dozel, that's great! The transfer hasn't been done yet, I've just sent Yamill a follow-up email.

[manask88]

i'm also willing to help some here, please let us know what happens. Ideally, he just transfers ownership and there is no need to fork this project

[colinramsay]

I still haven't received a reply to my followup. Although @yamill seemed open to the idea, if he doesn't actually perform the transfer then we'll just have to settle for running a fork.

[gaboelnuevo]

npm package needs to be updated too.

[jurassix]

Why not just abandon this in favor of https://github.com/walmartlabs/react-native-orientation-listener

[colinramsay]

It doesn’t currently support the ability to lock orientations.

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[rook2pawn]

It doesn’t currently support the ability to lock orientations.

@colinramsay It does. I'm using react-native 0.42.3 in my package whilst running the github react-native cli command set (v1000) for react-native run-android / react-native start

i can lock to portrait and lock to landscape.

[colinramsay]

@rook2pawn, I was talking about walmartlabs/react-native-orientation-listener. It only has three API methods and none of those indicate that they can lock orientation. The documentation for it doesn't show that it's possible either.

[pess0a]

@colinramsay what about @yamill ?
some fork anywhere?

[colinramsay]

I didn't hear anything from @yamill about transferring the project, then this happened:

https://github.com/yamill/react-native-orientation/issues/162

But it seems like there haven't been any new commits since then so still nothing has happened. We have our own private fork.

[truongluong1314]

Hi @colinramsay , can you please let me know if @yamill allow you to clone the project for maintenance purpose? Thank you!

[andrerfneves]

@colinramsay @truongluong1314 still waiting to hear back from @yamill. As #162 explains, we have a couple people ready to tackle the bugs and triage the issues, @yamill just has to grant us access.

[andrerfneves]

Maintainers are in and we're starting the ramp up on the package. Bear with us.