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Almoullim
Requesting Contributors
Due to lack of free time to continue to work on this at the moment. If anyone is willing to help keep this project alive, please let me know.
What would you prefer to work on and what areas do you want extra help? I could probably continue to contribute some issue triage efforts to help reduce the number of open issues due to duplicates or resolved issues
Responding to issues, checking PR's and merging them etc., if possible and willing, attempting to fix issues would be a plus :) @MoralCode
sounds good! As i only briefly used this library, how much scrutiny should be given to PR's coming in/how much do you care about the risk of breaking something in prod?
- is looking at the code sufficient?
- is there a set of automated tests I can run to validate some functionality?
- should I run the code/do I have to run the code on-device and check anything?
I'm happy to respond to incoming issues/PR's as they trickle in, but testing on device/trying to cover every scenario manually might slow down the merging of things substantially as Im no longer actively using this dependency in a project and dont have a ton of time to dedicate to testing
echoing my comments from the most recently mentioned PR here as well since they seem relevant:
At the current stage I'm sorta unsure what to do with the limited time that I have (see my comments above). The volume of conversation happening on issues and PRs on this repo makes me suspect there's a fairly large userbase of this library (since typically only a small minority ends up speaking up in issues and PRs like this), which makes me hesitant to blindly merge stuff for fear of breaking things. However, since I don't really use this library anymore and a) don't really have a great testing setup that would allow me to efficiently validate PRs to the level of quality this community probably expects, and b) dont really have time, much like @Almoullim), I'm not really sure if I'm able to support this project in the ways that it needs.
If there were something like automated test cases that had good coverage or like a detailed/step by step testing methodology that interested community members could run and post comments verifying that it works for them, that would definitely give me more confidence that things aren't going to break by merging PRs, but as things stand now I'm not sure I can singlehandedly keep this project alive without someone else stepping up to help perform the bulk of the validation of incoming PRs
Some interesting comments (not mine) from #207 that may be relevant here:
In case this becomes maintained again, there may be a wa for it to differentiate itself in the community
there is simply no flutter package for geolocation which could handle background updates well
However, if not,
Maybe it's worth updating readme file and adding a note that the package isn't actively maintained and add a reference to #188