[Help Wanted] New Maintainer

[gantoine]

Calling all flowbots! With the growing popularity of flow, flow-typed is looking for someone willing to help maintain the project. Preferably someone comfortable with flow who can fill the gaps in my knowledge. 😅

Comment below if you're interested!

[TrySound]

I can help a bit. Feel comfortable with lib defs and digging into flow ocaml source.

[willmruzek]

Are you looking for a replacement or additional help?

[marudor]

Additional Help.
Back when this repo started I mainly maintained it, sadly I do not have that much time anymore (Changed Job and stuff like that)
So more help is perfect.

[gantoine]

Pinging a few people who might be interested:

@aaronjensen @MichaelDeBoey @jedwards1211 @stouf @AndrewSouthpaw @villesau

[villesau]

@gantoine What kind of help is needed? reviewing PR's or helping to maintain the tool it self, something else?

[MichaelDeBoey]

I'm happy to help where I can. 🙂

Same questions as @villesau has: What kind of help is needed? Reviewing PR's or helping to maintain the tool itself or something else?

[gantoine]

Mostly reviewing PRs, I'd like someone who's better at flow then myself (which shouldn't be too hard to find). Also sanity check any changes made to the cli tool, and help out whichever way they want/can.

[stouf]

Being usually quite busy with work and other things, I may unfortunately not be the most committed person 😕 That being said, I would be glad to help anytime I can! 👍

[gantoine]

@stouf I'll ping you whenever I need you, but I'll make sure its not too often! 😉

[stouf]

@gantoine Hehe Thanks 🙂 Actually, you can ping me whenever you want/need. I'll do my best to be as responsive as possible; I just can't guarantee to be responsive 100% of the time, that's all 😉

[villesau]

After thinking this, I'd be also happy to help! :)

[marudor]

For easier communcation I quickly set up a slack:
https://flow-typed.marudor.de (auto invite)

[AndrewSouthpaw]

Yeah, I'd love to help out. Thanks for thinking of me, @gantoine!

[aaronjensen]

I'd be happy to do some reviews and merging.

[jedwards1211]

Is there any automatic way for us to get notified of PRs for specific package type defs? I'd like to review any PRs for redis and sequelize types at the very least

[gantoine]

@jedwards1211 I was planning on (eventually) writing a bot, which could "assign ownership" of libdefs to certain people, and ping them for reviews/questions. It could hook into new PRs via webhooks, or as a github add-on.

[jedwards1211]

great idea! all a matter of finding the time right 😅

[gantoine]

Story of all of our lives!

[sibelius]

add me as a contributor so I can merge some typedefs

[AndrewSouthpaw]

@gantoine Where were you thinking to host the bot? I wonder if it could be built out as a lambda function...

[gantoine]

Probably? I was planning on hosting on Heroku cause I'm cheap and lazy.

[gantoine]

I'm please to announce we've added @AndrewSouthpaw and @villesau to the maintenance team! They'll be helping out with issues and PRs for new and existing definitions.

A big thanks to everyone for answering the call! 😄