Still Looking for a New Maintainer

[jmmaranan]

Hi there,

Happy New Year! Hoping for a new maintainer!

As most of you may have seen, I had put in the announcement for a new maintainer. That hasn't changed - adding this ticket for visibility. I also talked to Javad (JustPerfection) about the transition plan. So far, I have not see any offers.

I will wrap the repo up by the end of the month (instead of end of 2023). The last few changes up to (4c4b913) will still be published on EGO.

https://github.com/orgs/forge-ext/discussions/276

[eruizc-dev]

Happy New Year to you too!

I've been considering this, sent you a message in Matrix to talk about some details. You can also write me on Twitter if you'd like @eruizc_dev.

[johnklehm]

Let me know as well, I enjoy this too much to have it die.

[lutzseverino]

I consider myself capable of maintaining this and would definitely help out, but I know nothing about developing GNOME extensions and would need some help understanding everything. If someone wants to give me a masterclass, contact me on Twitter (a.k.a. X).

I speak both English and Spanish fluently, feel free to write to me in whichever you feel most comfortable. Cheers!

[matdave]

maybe @bennypowers or @moritz-t-w are interested in becoming members/maintainers so this project can at least continue to have pull requests merged without it all being on just you? Sorry for volunteering others, just looked at the top contributors.

[bennypowers]

i can't commit to shouldering the responsibility for the repo, but i'm certainly willing to review prs every so often

[moritztim]

I don't have time lol

[jmmaranan]

Hi there
I decided to keep the repository running and I think maintenance can go in several ways:

• Someone might fork this, or use their fork and publish to their own account in extensions gnome to org
• As @bennypowers commented, some folks can review PRs and help test the changes. I can still publish to EGO once it is approved.
• For those newer to gnome extensions development, you can start reading and doing smaller extensions as an exercise: https://gjs.guide/extensions/. Unfortunately, some extensions development experience is needed on becoming a maintainer.
• I had invited some of the existing contributors. Please be nice to them and I hope they accept the invite.

[OsoRojo]

Is there a place that we can donate to you and / or other maintainers for keeping this alive? I for one would be happy to part with some scratch to show the love.

[Drachenfels]

Sorry for a bit of digressing. I would love this extension to live on, but killer for me is limitation of gnome shell, you cannot have independent workspaces per screen (or am I wrong?). Pretty much replicating Awesome, if there is a way to achieve it, I am volunteering to pick the mantle. But what I did research on the internet, it's impossible.

My main message, you did great job @jmmaranan, thanks!

[Malix-Labs]

Yeah @Drachenfels I think you would have an hard time trying to make that work, but it would be an interesting project for sure