📣 Call for maintainers

[jkimbo]

Unfortunately I no longer have the time to maintain Graphene-Django so I'm putting out this call for anyone who wants to get involved with development. Ideally you'll already have contributed to this library in some way or another.

@zbyte64 has already said that he's willing to step in but is anyone else interested?

[tcleonard]

I have started to use graphene-django quite extensively recently and would not mind being involved in this awesome project. I am far from having a good understanding of all what graphene(-django) can offer but I'm happy to offer my modest help.

[ulgens]

Hey @jkimbo , i was meant to give some of my time to project before but i couldn't manage it that time. Maybe, this time is the time for me to try again :slightly_smiling_face:

[jkimbo]

Thanks @tcleonard and @ulgens ! Please get in contact with @zbyte64 to organise. He has admin access on the repo so should be able to handle any problems.

Here are some hand over notes and areas that need work:

• v3 of Graphene-Django is waiting on Graphene v3 to be released. Graphene v3 is ready to go but is being held up because the other dependant libraries (graphene-mongo etc) have not been updated. There is no ETA on when they will be updated or when Graphene v3 will be released.
• The biggest missing feature from the v3 release currently is dataloaders. The new graphql-core version dropped support for Promises so you have to use asyncio to achieve the same thing. However the Django ORM does not currently support asyncio so it's unclear what to do until it does.
• The master branch of Graphene-Django is for the v2 releases. There is a v3 branch which should be periodically updated with the changes in master. Once v3 has a clear path to be released the v3 branch should be merged into master. Maintaining a v2 branch to release bugfixes is probably a good idea as well.
• The release process is as follows:
  • Update the version in https://github.com/graphql-python/graphene-django/blob/master/graphene_django/init.py and commit it
  • Create a new GitHub release with the new version number
  • GitHub will create a new tag and GitHub actions will push a new release to PyPi
• The biggest source of confusion currently is the fact that Graphene-Django defaults a lot to Relay patterns when most developers don't use Relay (see https://github.com/graphql-python/graphene-django/issues/349, https://github.com/graphql-python/graphene-django/issues/957, https://github.com/graphql-python/graphene-django/issues/274 and probably others). This should really be addressed and IMO the Relay integration should be completely optional. I've written up some thoughts here: https://github.com/graphql-python/graphene-django/issues/957#issuecomment-626307802 Possibly a good opportunity do it with the v3 release.
• The https://github.com/eamigo86/graphene-django-extras library is very good and should probably be integrated

Sorry it's quite rough. Feel free to ask me questions either here or on Slack.

✌️ out

[asencis]

Hey @zbyte64 I'm looking to commit to Django-graphene from the Django REST framework - are you still accepting new applications for contributors/maintainers? From my own experiences with the library - I'd like to help in the area of documentation but also really happy to help with any modest-sized PRs that are needed.

[zbyte64]

Hi @asencis ; would love to have you join the team. Please join us on slack.

[iltoningui]

I've recently started building opensource tools and working with django and I would like to be involved in the project.

[kevindice]

Hi @zbyte64 , I'd also be interested.

[yaserrahimi]

Hi @zbyte64 how i can start?

[jackton1]

@zbyte64 I'll like to also get involved, currently actively using graphene-django in production.

[allangz]

Hi guys, I also would like to help.

[bellini666]

Hey guys. I would also like to help. How can I join the slack channel?

[Luferov]

Hi! Me too! Could I get link to slack Chunnel?

[taekyunnn]

me too! can i get link to slack channel? my email address is [email protected]

[hiporox]

@bellini666 @Luferov @taekyun-quriously @allangz There is a link to the graphene slack channel in the README, I have also added it here. There is a django channel in there

@zbyte64 can confirm if that is the correct location, but that is my guess as someone who is also interested in helping out

[Luferov]

@hiporox thank you so much i found and joined to slack channel a few days ago.