Is finch dead?

[benjumanji]

No value judgement, I currently rely on it for a few projects and I'm wondering if I should just move on? I'd be happy to merge scala-steward pulls etc to keep it ticking over.

[rpless]

Yea I get the sentiment, and I'd get it if you wanted to move on. We definitely haven't been very active over the last year or so. Sergey and I had talked earlier this year about the next release. The only real thing remaining is to update the docs which was half done in #1231. I think we'll be in a much better spot for getting back to a more regular-ish releases once we've released that. For my part, I haven't had a ton of time in awhile, although I'm hoping to get freed up in the next couple months to work on it.

@sergeykolbasov Maybe it makes sense to post your doc redesign idea for 0.33.0 in an issue (happy to port it over if you don't have time) and see if any other folks can help. We might also consider bring on some more people. Happy to chat about that here or in the maintainers chat.

Not sure if other folks have thoughts here, but would be happy for more input.

[tpetillot]

Finch is definitly very handfull and pleasant to use, we're glad to have migrated on it.
The only drawback we have met is with the dependencies updates, on which we would be glad to help maintain as well.

[benjumanji]

As it stands I'm not dying for features. I think it works well as a library, I think it's more just keeping up with deps shakes fist at jackson.I think a docs refresh would be grand. I have a PR for last year targetting one tiny part of the docs #1274 and it's that kind of thing (references to removed code) I think that makes the project look unmaintained. I think the overall quality of the project is great.

[benjumanji]

Well, it's gotten to the point where I can't update key dependencies (shapless / circe), adios amigos. Thanks for the ride :)

[joroKr21]

Can we just onboard new maintainers? I would be happy to help, even if it's just updating dependencies and cutting new releases.

[rpless]

Its clear to me that we (the maintainers) didn't do enough to push this forward, especially when this issue was first raised.
I'm +1 to adding more people, even if only to do version bumps.

@sergeykolbasov @vkostyukov Thoughts on the above? I'd prefer to not just add people unilaterily.

@joroKr21 It sounds like you are interested.
@tpetillot It sounds like you might have been interested at one point, is that still the case?

[tpetillot]

@rpless yes, still interested!

[tpetillot]

Any update?

[joroKr21]

@joroKr21 It sounds like you are interested.

Yes, I'd be interested. I hope we can release by just publishing a tag - if not automating releases would be the single most important thing for me.

[rpless]

Sorry for the delay, I have invited both @joroKr21 and @tpetillot to the repo.

I hope we can release by just publishing a tag

So we do have an automated release process, however its not tag based. What we do to trigger the release process is push a commit like this, that removes the -SNAPSHOT part of the version and then CI kicks and handles the release.

[joroKr21]

So we do have an automated release process, however its not tag based. What we do to trigger the release process is push a commit like this, that removes the -SNAPSHOT part of the version and then CI kicks and handles the release.

Does it mean right after the release you need another commit to add -SNAPSHOT again?

[tpetillot]

@joroKr21 seems like CI add it back 78b2f15

[tpetillot]

@joroKr21 if you're up to, we may discuss the takeover of the updates on https://gitter.im/finagle/finch

[rpless]

Correct, CI will also cut a new snapshot version for you.

[tpetillot]

Started with #1446 to allow IntelliJ proper indexing.
Next updates will be: finagle, shapeless and circe on which I've not detected any breaking change.

CE3 is not a priority for us ATM, so I guess I'll update as much as possible dependencies under 0.32.2, then bring CE3 under 0.33.0 if you're ok with it?

Let me know if you wish keep an eye from distance, or if I should merge PR on my own (which I'll not until it has been stated).