New home, new maintainers

[alexcrichton]

I'd like to announce and give a heads up to everyone on this repository that I intend to transfer this repository to a new home in the next few weeks and additionally bring on new maintainers. I've explained this change in more detail in a blog post for the Inside Rust blog at rust-lang/blog.rust-lang.org#1663 which I hope to publish in a few days. The transfer of this repository would likely happen within a week or two of that being published

New home

I plan to transfer this repository to a new wasm-bindgen organization and the new home of this repository will be https://github.com/wasm-bindgen/wasm-bindgen (note that link does not work at the time of this writing). The goal of this transfer is to move activity out of the rustwasm organization to make it clear that this is no longer a part of the Rust and WebAssemby Working Group which no longer exists.

New maintainers

The current primary maintainer of this repository is @daxpedda who I am eternally grateful for in taking over from me. I still have permissions to do things but I do not effectively maintain this repository any more. I have had interest expressed to me from others about the helping to maintain and after talking with everyone involved what's going to happen is that some new maintainers are going to be signed on during this transition to assist @daxpedda with continued maintenance. I will personally be removing myself from all permissions so I won't have the ability to maintain this repository any more (I'll be assisting with the transition any more)

If you or others have thoughts on this please feel free to reach out to me on Zulip or leave a comment here. If you or your company has a vested interest in maintaining wasm-bindgen please reach out as well so we can talk about you getting signed up to maintain as well.

At this time the new set of maintainers will be @daxpedda and @guybedford with Cloudflare (I think Guy may invite other folks from Cloudflare too).

[guybedford]

Thank you @alexcrichton for taking the time to help figure out the path forward for this project.

Cloudflare Workers Rust language support depends heavily on wasm-bindgen, so we would very much like to assist in ensuring it has strong foundations going forward. I'd be happy to contribute as a co-maintainer for wasm-bindgen with updates and fixes while we are actively working towards a stable release for the workers-rs project, a point which has taken some years to get to.

I'd also like to ask any others in the community considering collaborating to also register their interest in participating during this transition to the refreshed project structure and scope, so we can collectively build a strong maintenance story here without over-burdening any single party.

@daxpedda when we have the full list of those interested in contributing here, it would be great to arrange a maintainer discussion / sync further. @RReverser and @hoodmane have also expressed interest in contributing from the Cloudflare side.

[RReverser]

. @RReverser and @hoodmane have also expressed interest in contributing from the Cloudflare side.

Indeed.