How to contribute / donate / support Rechart devs?

[dsldsl]

Hi. Thank you to everyone who's worked on this project over the years.

I'm wondering if there are a group of "core" maintainer or people that I could contribute / support / donate to for their work on this project. Doesn't look like it's too active these days, but would like to support if possible. (i.e. in Github there is functionality to turn on a donate section, would love to for @xile611 @arcthur etc.)

Separately, I'd be interested in hiring someone who's active and well understands this lib for some small consulting hours dealing with nuanced questions. 🙏

[arcthur]

hi dsldsl

thanks for your advise. actually, i have lots of work and no time to support some issues and develop. if someone was interesting in this repo and have much time and ability to contribute new feature or handle issues, i will talk with him/her to develop

[nikolasrieble]

@dillonreedy is interested, and I am as well. @arcthur

[dillonreedy]

Yes please

[ckifer]

Also @dangreen in this thread #1833 (comment)

@arcthur - as someone who's been off and on active in the recharts triage team for the past few years and loves the project, I am willing to take ownership and delegate from here. I haven't contributed much code, but I understand it and am willing to orchestrate a bit to create progress.

[ckifer]

@arcthur tagging to ask again for a conversation surrounding making someone more active a Maintainer. Thanks!

[dsldsl]

Thanks @arcthur. Are any "core" developers still active on this project? Partially? Def good to start looking for others to take on more pro active roles.

[dsldsl]

@arcthur do you know if it's possible to get ahold of @xile611 to transfer ownership of the repo to new people? Or can you help with that?

[ckifer]

I've emailed him multiple times over the years with no responses :/

[igorlukanin]

I've been emailing as well, same outcome.

[ckifer]

Tagging all those under the recharts github org (other than those already in the discussion). Thumbs up if you would like to continue contributions if this repo becomes active again, thumbs down if not.

@avindra @evilucifero @huxiaoyun @jasonHzq @jasonslyvia @sainthkh @semoal @twobin

[dsldsl]

@arcthur @jasonHzq @evilucifero can we get your presence again to discuss transfer of ownership of this project?

Alternatively, the next plan would be to fork and continue dev in a new repo and with a new website. Not ideal but better than death.

[dsldsl]

Could also start implementing updates in a new repo and then in the future hopefully offer them as pull requests here when we've made contact

[igorlukanin]

@ckifer @nikolasrieble @dsldsl I would definitely love to be a part of this, together with @dangreen. We're maintaining, supporting with code and docs contributions, and sometimes financially a number of prominent charting libraries and their integrations with front-end frameowrks (Chart.js, Chartist, canvg, etc.). So we'd like to be a part of Recharts revival and help however we can! 💌

[nikolasrieble]

Wonderful! Lets get together on the storybook and create a concise and complete documentation. I believe that some advanced examples of using recharts (i.e. including wrapper components) could lead the way to new feature development and improved default behaviour.

I am currently working on a blog series in which I will share how we use recharts at Tulip Interfaces.

[dsldsl]

I don't understand what you're proposing - take a team of people who are actively interested and write docs? I def see value in that and appreciate all who contribute in any way. And, I think active development with the codebase is critical Vs just documentation. The maintainers seem to have moved on and without developer engagement this project will struggle to stay relevant.

[nikolasrieble]

@dsldsl As you can see in the commit history, recent changes have been merged 29 days ago. https://github.com/recharts/recharts/commits?author=arcthur

Further, non core developers had their PRs merged, such as #2900

Thus I do not conclude that the core devs moved on.

Instead I suggest to show investment and motivation to become an active maintainer of the project by solving a single problem - outdated documentation - in a separate repository.

Yet I am hopeful that this might convince some of the core devs to add more contributors.
If we fail to convince them, I am confident we should fork.

[nikolasrieble]

If you prefer to start forking right away, cool! Happy to contribute there as well. For now I will focus on storybook.

[ckifer]

Bump @arcthur

[ckifer]

Bump @arcthur @xile611

[Yilun-Sun]

I am willing to contribute @arcthur

[arcthur]

I haven't been on github for a while :>. I create a slack, if anyone want to contribute the repo, maybe join this https://join.slack.com/t/recharts/shared_invite/zt-1l5lal1py-4tfkgCqrdzCaE7t7_yUGWw

[ckifer]

Thanks for the response!! Joined

[ckifer]

Just tagging those that would want to join. @dsldsl @dangreen @dillonreedy @igorlukanin