Help wanted: maintaining rust-url

SimonSapin · 2017-05-09T16:46:10.561Z

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!

brson · 2017-05-09T16:56:48.903Z

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.

saghm · 2017-05-09T17:05:53.263Z

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

SimonSapin · 2017-05-09T17:22:12.324Z

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.

saghm · 2017-05-09T20:21:05.000Z

Will do! Thanks for the info

beatgammit · 2017-05-10T00:22:48.484Z

brson:

rust-lang also has important 1-maintainer crates

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.

behnam · 2017-05-10T01:19:58.657Z

@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.

skade · 2017-05-10T08:39:38.152Z

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

brson · 2017-05-10T16:37:34.800Z

beatgammit:

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.

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.

tmccombs · 2017-05-15T05:17:26.290Z

I’m willing to help out as well.

cbreeden · 2017-05-15T15:17:59.672Z

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

luisbg · 2017-05-16T13:47:53.351Z

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.

behnam · 2017-05-16T17:57:30.341Z

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.