Help wanted: maintaining rust-url

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rust-url is fairly popular, but the set of its maintainers is pretty much me. Unfortunately I haven’t given it all the time it needs lately. The project is not in a bad shape overall, but there is a growing number of pull requests that need attention, especially with the recent libs blitz.

If you care about rust-url and are able and willing to spend time on it, please help triaging issues and reviewing pull requests. Ideally I’d love to be able to pass day-to-day maintenance of the project to a new set of co-maintainers, but any form or amount of help is appreciated.

Thanks!

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This is a really important crate for Rust, so good luck finding a more maintainers @SimonSapin. I'll at least help with reviews for a bit.

rust-lang also has important 1-maintainer crates that receive patches and issues. It would be nice to have a better system to shoulder these maintenance duties together.

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I'd be interested in helping out with this! What would be the best way to get started?

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Thanks! Start from https://github.com/servo/rust-url/pulls, pick one, try Reviewable if you’d like (there a purple button on the first message of every PR) or use GitHub if you prefer, review a diff, add comments if you find bugs, other issues, or have questions; add a "looks good to me" comment if you don’t.

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Will do! Thanks for the info

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Is there a list of these? I may not be able to actually commit to maintaining a crate, but perhaps this info would be good to post somewhere and I definitely want to help where I can. I didn't see anything specific in the "Libz Blitz" post, which is why I ask.

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@SimonSapin, I'm fairly new to Rust and righ now working on Unicode and i18n modules mainly, but can also help with bug-fixes in rust-url and development of the idna sub-crate.

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As mentioned, I could help with patch review (and merging).

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No, there is not a list, but most of rust-lang-nursery gets relatively few eyes. For example, rustup went 4 months without a release this year. I want to get it back on a roadmap that people can contribute to and help maintain. This is not the thread for that discussion though. Sorry for hijacking it to talk about non-url crates.

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I'm willing to help out as well.

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I'm intrigued by your Unicode and i18n work. Where could I learn more?

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This is a very interesting crate. I am busy right now but just looked at a PR and helping out here looks like fun.

Once my todo list clears a bit I will check if there has been good involvement. If not, this is tempting.

Thanks for the heads up Simon, this "help wanted" requests are great.

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At the moment, I'm improving implementations of various unicode algorithms. I have started with the bidi package: https://github.com/servo/unicode-bidi/

What I want to do is to improve the conformance of these algorithms, as well as the performance and maintainability, as they need regular updates. Also, a top goal is to assure crate users that they can rely on the unicode version of the crates match.

If you are interested, @cbreeden, I will ping you when I have more updates on those.

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