"All contributors" development stalled?

[da5nsy]

Summary

Just flagging that I just noticed that there's been no activity on any of the all-contrib repos for ~6 months (longer if you don't count the ML one...)
This is fine so long as it keeps working, but would be an issue if it stops working for whatever reason, and feels like something we should keep an eye on, and perhaps consider contributing upstream as we are quite reliant on that code as things stand.

What needs to be done?

No response

Who can help?

No response

[da5nsy]

Hi @jakebolam, @tenshiAMD, @sinchang, @Berkmann18, @tbenning, @MatheusRV, and @DemianD

Forgive the big tag-set - I'm tagging you folks as the people listed on https://github.com/all-contributors/all-contributors?tab=readme-ov-file#contributors- under 🚧 or 💻.
Please feel free to unsubscribe if you'd rather not be pinged in this conversation.

What's going on with that repo, and is there any way I, or we at The Turing Way, can help?

Context:

• We're quite a heavy user of the bot, and the project aligns well with our prioirisiting of recognition of contributions beyond lines of code, and would like to see it continue being supported. (Further info)
• We have a (small but very cool) infrastructure working group who may well be able to assist on the technical side of things.

I, personally, would be very happy to be given permissions to triage the issues (it seems like a lot of spam has cropped up recently), if that would be a useful first step perhaps?

[da5nsy]

There's a discussion on TTW Slack about the option of hard forking this project.

@alexwlchan - @malvikasharan mentioned that you previously contributed to both TTW and all-contrib. Do you know anyone who might be able to help support/maintain the project, either within the current project or as a fork?

[lucascolley]

given the radio silence from upstream, at this point I think a hard fork would be appreciated (of course if there are a few people with some bandwidth to give to it)!

[alexwlchan]

@da5nsy My only contribution to all-contrib was five years ago, and it's been a while since I had any bandwidth to do stuff for TTW – I don't know anybody who'd be able to support/maintain the project, sorry.

[lwasser]

hey everyone. Just a note that I did email one of the maintainers that I had reached out to in the past. Similar to this thread, they haven't responded yet! i'm following along here however. it seems like a good move to try to revive the bot. I am unfortunately not a ruby dev.