Looking for a new maintainer(s)

[mrmonday]

Anyone watching libpnet will have noticed the slow turn-around time on issues and pull requests, long-standing issues which have not been resolved, and perhaps seen my comments about some of the work that needs doing before I would consider it remotely close to a 1.0 library.

It is time for me to step down, and for someone new to take the helm.

Ideally, I'm looking for someone who has:

• Has actively contributed to or maintained an open source project in the past
• Has experience building an inclusive and friendly open-source community around a project
• Has experience with operating system or network programming
• Has good experience with Rust
• Is interested in evolving and pushing libpnet forwards

Some subset of these probably works too.

I'm not disappearing, and will still be able to help out/lend guidance for anyone who takes over.

Leave a comment, or grab me on IRC if you're interested.

[mattlknight]

@mrmonday I'm willing to offer a significant amount of my time contributing to this project. It is a fairly import piece of some of the things I am playing with in Rust. I don't think I'm qualified to be a maintainer though. Here to help however I can.

[JuxhinDB]

While I cannot be of huge help -- I've pushed a PR before to libpnet and have kept an eye on it. Maybe I can be of help in the Windows support side of things since not many are willing to. Let me know what you think.

[mrmonday]

I have added you both as maintainers to the repository (you should have received an invitation email). That should give you enough access to start merging pull requests.

Please make changes through pull requests, rather than pushing directly.

I can/will grant more access at a later point if all goes well.

[kishiguro]

I have some bandwidth to help libpnet. I was doing a lot of networking software development and recently heavily using libpnet on several project.

[JuxhinDB]

@mrmonday would you like to invite @kishiguro? I will be able to start maintaining the project again after mid-July unfortunately.

[mrmonday]

Should have received an email, thanks for volunteering, @kishiguro!

[kishiguro]

Thanks guys, I've just got an invitation. I'll try my best for contributing to the project. I just made a milestone libpnet 0.26 which will have some of bug and warning fixes.

[mrmonday]

Thank you for stepping up - my inbox has been full of pull requests being merged and issues being resolved basically every day - it seems libpnet is in good hands!

[stappersg]

Here another volunteer reporting for duty.
I would like be enabled to close stale issues.

FWIW at irc am I stappers.

[stappersg]

Why the silence?

[infosechoudini]

Ping! I'd like to assist. If you want, I can contribute with PRs from a fork for now.

[infosechoudini]

@mrmonday @kishiguro @stappersg, let's chat about me contributing to this project. I'm currently building branches on a fork but i think it'll be better to build branches off the original.

[stappersg]

If I recall correct have I have I seen in libera/#libpnet that not github.com emails do reach @mrmonday
So there is now:

14:55 < stappers> mrmonday: Welcome back. Please add
                  https://github.com/libpnet/libpnet/issues/369#issuecomment-850998415 and
                  https://github.com/libpnet/libpnet/issues/369#issuecomment-1105144422 to
                  your "needs attention"-list  :-)

[infosechoudini]

@mrmonday any additional thoughts of me helping maintain?