Maintainers and other help needed!

[regebro]

As you can see, the issues keep piling up. I hardly have time to keep track of issues, and I certainly do not have time to work on the new features that I really want to get to, and have wanted to get to for years.

So I'm calling for extra maintainers to help deal with support questions, bugs and new features. Hovercraft! is quite popular in the Python community, let's make this into a real project with multiple contributors and a Kanban board etc.

The code isn't particularly crazy, so don't be afraid to dig in. In the meanwhile, I will focus on the pull requests and review them properly to get started.

[jpoikela]

I'll see what I can do...

[jasonbrown1965]

Late to this, but makes me wonder - is there a clearinghouse for git help requests for developers? Maybe even a task-based option? Of course, git issues already enable anyone to step in at anytime. But devs are like anyone, suffering what Alvin Toffler predicted back in the 70's - Future Shock - information overload. Brains evolved to survive mostly within a 30 mile radius at any one time for countless millennia. Next minute, so much info we don't know what we don't know.

Suggested solution: If there was an endless list of one-off tasks rather than having to size up a whole project? Might encourage new developers, especially, to go, oh, I just learnt that bit, I can apply the latest fix.

Disclosure: not a tech myself,
but seen similar bottlenecks,
in other 'open source' (collaborative) projects,
eg non-profits.

. . .