Are you in?

[hueniverse]

With a governance model, a metorship program, and a pile of modules looking for new leads, it's time to open the doors and invite new contributors to take a leading role within the hapi.js community.

With the exception of the hapijs/hapi module, all other hapijs/* modules currently listed with Eran Hammer as lead maintainer are open for new leadership requests. Please take a look, and either reply to this tread, or contact Raquel, Ben, or Eran.

For more context: Wide Open

[taterbase]

I haven't hacked on any of hapijs's modules before but I like this new strategy for open source collaboration, especially the mentor/mentee dynamic. Would it be appropriate to toss my hat in the ring for say a left over module or a randomly assigned one?

[jagoda]

I work with Joi and Vision pretty regularly and would be happy to take one of those if it would be helpful. I'm also pretty familiar with the hapijs code/ecosystem and would be happy to help out with the metor/mentee program. Let me know where I can provide the most value :-)

[dschenkelman]

I'd like to join this initiative. Recently started to use hapi.js on a production API, so I think it would be useful to both learn more and give back.

[cjihrig]

code?

[hueniverse]

Thanks everyone. I am going to give people a few days to catch up with this thread and have a chance to see what's available and how they want to contribute. If you think you would make a good mentor, please go ahead to join the program! No reason to wait.

It is generally better to express a preference for the module you would like to lead. It is even better to get started and start participating in issues on those modules.

And again, thanks for offering to help!

[notjrbauer]

I have a bunch of experience with proxying requests - I'm interested in h2o2. Feel free to contact me!

[briandela]

I'd be happy to help out in any way I can.

[nvcexploder]

Rad responses on here! I'd like to reiterate - folks should sign up on the mentor list. We're already getting mentees signing up, and could use your help! :D

[KyleAMathews]

I'd like there to be a good-influxdb plugin so I'd be happy to write/maintain that one.

Also since I already duplicated https://github.com/hapijs/scooter accidently, I could use that and maintain it :)

[Marsup]

@KyleAMathews https://github.com/totherik/good-influxdb ?

I'd be happy to take joi as well, we heavily use it at work and feel confident I can devote time to it.

I don't know how I feel about that mentorship program, I tend to believe that discussing issues in the open is far better in the end, it's discoverable/searchable and there's already a great community helping each other out.

[hueniverse]

@Marsup Not everyone is comfortable being assisted in public. People often prefer to ask questions in private because of how it will make them look. Also, We want to encourage people to seek leadership roles and not everyone has the same confidence and self-esteem. We asked, and based on the feedback, realized that there is an actual barrier by forcing all interactions to be public.

[KyleAMathews]

@Marsup oh nice! I hadn't googled around yet, was just looking through the hapijs org. This looks perfect.

[taterbase]

I've been working a lot with MongoDB for the past few years. I'll throw my hat in for https://github.com/hapijs/catbox-mongodb

[Marsup]

@hueniverse I can't promise I'd be available all the time so I'd be more comfortable helping out in issues and on irc, can't we find a tool where only the hapi team could see issues and give mentees both private help and a greater response time ? I understand the need for one-on-one but availability of mentors might be an issue.

[hueniverse]

@Marsup We're creating multiple channels. Diversity in communication helps diversity of participation.

[dfrnswrth]

This is a great idea and I'd be glad to help. I don't have a module or role preference--anything to make this a success and have more projects follow your lead.

[ghost]

Is good-graphite up for grabs?

[grahamjenson]

I am new to open source maintenance, but I use catbox and redis so maybe catbox-redis is a good small module to start with. I will try get it running locally later, and get back here

[kidtronnix]

Happy to help as well. Maybe I can take vision and visonary? I got my own toothache, so don't wanna take too big a module.

[ghost]

i'm in, email list? slack maybe?

[ankurp]

I'm in. Let me know where help is needed as I can help out with https://github.com/hapijs/subtext https://github.com/hapijs/ammo and create a new repo for showing flash notifications like in Rails.

[hueniverse]

Hey everyone - if there is a module you like, the best thing to do is go and start working on it as a contributor. I tend to give modules to people who are already active on it. If there are no open issues, work on documenting the module as well as doing some PRs for new features.

[hueniverse]

Here are the modules looking for new maintainers:

• h2o2
• statehood
• vision
• shot
• subtext
• pez
• accept
• mimos
• content
• topo
• peekaboo
• visionary
• hapi-auth-basic
• call
• ammo
• catbox
• bassmaster
• makemehapi

If you would like to be the new lead maintainer, start by submitting a few pull requests with additional documentation and tests, updating the module to the latest dependencies, etc. Do not ask to be the lead maintainer unless that request is made within the comments of a pull request.

First come first served.