Maintainer help needed

[sroze]

Hey, everybody! I'm looking for some people that would be able to help me going forward with ngInfiniteScroll (and its maintenance obsly) as I've a very limited time at the moment.

Part of the roadmap I've in my head is:

• Get rid of CoffeeScript (for various reasons, including the entrance level to be able to contribute)
• Support Angular2
• Maybe multi-direction scrolling
• oh yeah, fixing/closing the different issues

If you're interested, you're awesome and please get in touch with me :)

[david-gang]

Hi,

I think that the first step of looking for a maintainer, is getting rid of coffescript. This shys many people away. As a step towards angular2, i would suggest to switching to typescript.
This would let more people to contribute to this project.
Would you have one code base which supports angular1 and angular2?

Thanks,
David

[sphaso]

Hi, just wanted to add that an Angular2 version is already up and running in this PR #251
The Angular2 version is beta3 IIRC, because I first ported the project in January. I'm obviously available to maintain it as the project moves forward.

[asleepwalker]

@david-gang

As a step towards angular2, i would suggest to switching to typescript.

Then next post may start with "looking for help to get rid of TypeScript". :D

[matheuslc]

Maybe the best option is to write in ES2016, what do you think about it?

[razchiriac]

Hi, I'd love to help with this project. I use this in my angular-material app. Let me know how I can help.

[graingert]

I propose to start with you should run https://github.com/decaffeinate/decaffeinate/ on the source code.

[alanblins]

Hi, I would love to help with this project fixing some bugs and add more resources. I have used this library in some projects.

[graingert]

@alanblins hey there. I'm currently maintaining infiniteScroll in feature freeze mode and am pointing new users at Google's https://material.angularjs.org/latest/demo/virtualRepeat

This is probably even more important with the release of Angular 2 as the ng1 community winds down in favour of Angular 2

[nvlimbachiya]

I would suggest angular material's Virtual Repeat is not a flexible option. It is very opinionated about the height of each element and it flat out breaks if at all you try to use components/directives with one-way data binding. IMO Virtual Repeat is only helpful when someone wants to display tabular data, otherwise it's a nightmare to work with.

I am happy to help once you decide to unfreeze the project.

[eburdon]

I'm interested in helping out, but haven't contributed to an open-source before. Any chance you could mark some issues with 'beginner', 'intermediate', etc... to encourage pull requests?

[bastiantowers]

I'm in! I'll see what issue can I fix and I'll send you some pull requests. Let me know if you need something more.

[graingert]

@bastiantowers mostly I'm looking for someone to close issues that no longer exist, are poorly described are duplicated, or are feature requests.