Maintenance

[stephenmathieson]

Hi folks. Not sure who will see this notification, but I feel obligated to post.

About a decade ago, I was very active in the "component" community. Since then, I have moved on (you have too, probably). This said, we have many npm packages that are highly relied on (eg debounce, ~4M downloads a week). Do we intend on supporting these packages? If so, to what extent?

I'd like to define a policy for future updates. I have no interest in introducing new features to anything, or even fixing bugs (if it's worked for 10+ years, it's probably fine). Can we all agree on something like this? Please discuss.

Cheers

[hyperupcall]

As someone who occasionally uses packages from here like debounce and escape-html, I completely agree. There could be improvements to the README, CI, and documentation for only the most popular packages, but I agree that there shouldn't really be any changes to the code. It might be a good idea to signal this by archiving the repositories that are not really popular.

[sindresorhus]

I'm willing to take over maintenance of some of these packages (and move them to my account). I work on open-source full-time and want to make sure these packages are well maintained. I will not do major changes to the APIs. Just cleaning up the issue trackers, fixing bugs, and improving the readmes. I will obviously preserve the commit history and all credit for existing work.

[hyperupcall]

In this case, I would be happy to contribute to this if any help is needed!

[juliangruber]

Same!

[sindresorhus]

@juliangruber Can you add me to these packages?

• https://www.npmjs.com/package/domify
• https://www.npmjs.com/package/component-emitter
• https://www.npmjs.com/package/throttleit
• https://www.npmjs.com/package/component-type
• https://www.npmjs.com/package/merge-descriptors

[juliangruber]

added 🙏

[jonathanong]

Thank you @sindresorhus! I trust that you'll serve the open source community well! :)

[stephenmathieson]

I'd be happy to hand over packages to you, Sindre. Thoughts from @pirxpilot @matthewmueller @TooTallNate @juliangruber @yields?

[yields]

sgtm! thanks @sindresorhus :)

[juliangruber]

Thank you @sindresorhus, yes!

[juliangruber]

Tell me if I can be of help somehow

[TooTallNate]

👍

[sindresorhus]

🙏

I just did a v2 of debounce. Now with cleaned up code, a lot more tests, TypeScript types, and some bug fixes, (no API changes): https://github.com/sindresorhus/debounce/releases/tag/v2.0.0