Call for maintainers

[rossabaker]

There's no replacing Lars, but their open source hiatus has left a handful of projects with lagging maintenance. This is a tremendous opportunity for new maintainers to step forward. Responsibilities include:

• Review and merge pull requests. Many of them are trivial bumps from Scala Steward.
• Respond to issues. Ask clarifying questions, resolve what you can, solicit help.
• Be mindful of binary compatibility. If you don't know what this means, let's add MiMa together.
• Tag releases. Talk to adjacent projects about their needs to schedule them. If your project doesn't release from CI yet, let's fix that together.
• Adhere to the Scala Code of Conduct. The admins are here to help.

If you're interested in learning the above, but unsure you're ready, we will help you.

The following projects have most recently maintained been carried by Lars. Please comment if you're interested in keeping any of them going. Projects that nobody speaks for may be considered candidates for archival:

• simulacrum: (@sh0hei, @vendamere)
• cats-testkit-scalatest
• discipline-specs2 (@vasilmkd)
• semigroups (@osleonard, @sh0hei)
• discipline-scalatest (@gagandeepkalra)
• mouse: @danicheg + @benhutchison
• simulacrum-scalafix (@vendamere)
• cats-time (@sh0hei, @cquiroz, @lukoyanov)
• monoids (@sh0hei, @danicheg)
• spire (@armanbilge, @cquiroz)
• cats-collections (@gemelen, @lukoyanov, @osleonard)
• frameless: (@cchantep, @pomadchin)
• claimant

These have one active person, and would benefit from a second. Much of the recent work is keeping up with dependencies:

• cats-effect-testing (@sh0hei)
• cats-mtl (@sh0hei)
• literally (@sh0hei)
• kind-projector (@danicheg)
• munit-cats-effect (@danicheg)
• scalacheck-effect (@softinio)

[armanbilge]

Definitely raising my hand for spire, if you'll have me! And possibly some other projects, depending on other volunteers and whether they are important enough to be spared archival.

[tpolecat]

@armanbilge you should talk to @cquiroz about Spire. He has been working on the Scala 3 port.

[rossabaker]

Great. Spire is (probably?) the most starred of these, and I'd love to see it continue strong. I see @cquiroz has been active lately as well.

[armanbilge]

Spire is the library that introduced me to the typelevel ecosystem actually (and where I learned to program Scala tbh) :) Yep, I've been following along with @cquiroz efforts!

[armanbilge]

For fun, here's me giving a talk about spire once upon a time ago 😆
https://twitter.com/ScalaAtTheSea/status/950927583289290752

[sh0hei]

@rossabaker I am interested in the maintenance of simulacrum 👍

[danicheg]

@rossabaker I'd be happy to help with maintaining mouse, I'm in love with fold on boolean for years :) Also, I'm interested in maintaining semigroups and monoids if possible.

[gemelen]

Eager to help with any, most likely cats-collections and/or cats-time.

[sh0hei]

@rossabaker I am also interested in the following maintenance:

• cats-time (because I'm the maintainer of chronoscala and cats-time is a project similar to chronoscala (We always welcome stargazer to chronoscala 😄 ) )
• semigroups and monoids (because I'm interested in ADT)

[anicolaspp]

I wrote most of the original cats-collections data structures along with stew, but it seems that we both are not committed to maintaining it. I hope someone does it and keeps it alive.

[lukoyanov]

I would be glad to help out with something like cats-time and/or cats-collections.

[osleonard]

Would be glad to help with cats-collections & may be semigroups

[cquiroz]

I'd like to help on spire given my work on the scala 3 port and cats-time as it interacts with Scala-java-time

[cquiroz]

Does algebra have maintainers? If not I could help there as well

[cchantep]

I could try to help on frameless