Looking for a new maintainer

[gnunn1]

As many have probably noticed, activity on tilix has dwindled over the last year or so. From my perspective it does everything I need in a terminal emulator (well more actually) and I have little interest in adding features or even fixing bugs in features I don't use. I also want to spend more time on things more closely related to my day job and unfortunately that's not terminal emulators, GUIs, D or GNOME.

As a result I think some new blood with respect to Tilix would be beneficial. If you are interested in taking over the project let me know, ideally it would be someone who is already involved but we can work out a process for someone new.

Now does this mean tilix is completely dead if no one takes over? Probably not simply because I still use it everyday and will likely continue to put in the minimum effort to keep it working. However my motivation to push formal releases out the door versus just updating code in the repo will likely be pretty low.

With new energy I think there are some interesting directions Tilix could go so hopefully someone will be up to taking it on.

[auvipy]

I am a Python and C programmer and a regular Linux user. You could consider me as a potential maintainer if you feel so.

[Crestwave]

@auvipy Tilix is written in D, though.

[auvipy]

Yes, I saw the code, and it seems very familiar with C with more cleaner syntax!!

[andrei-pavel]

I write C++ on my day-to-day job and I also have prior Go experience. However, I have the following philosophy regarding programming languages on new native projects that I would ever start:

• For operating systems, drivers, kernel, embedded projects, use Rust for safety
• For high performance computing, use C++
• If you want to leverage a great concurrency runtime for something like blockchain, use Go
• For everything else, use D

D is a well polished natively compiled language which makes it my safety net default language. I do not have practical experience outside a minimalistic boilerplate[1], but I have been watching it's updates on a regular basis.

I love tilix and have been using it for about a year and would be humbled and diligent in maintaining it.

I have contributed to open-source before, but not to tilix and before any consideration for me is had, I should at least try to fix a few issues or add a few features which I will start to look at today in my spare time. If you have a process set in place, let me know, email is in the profile description.

[1] https://github.com/andrei-pavel/d-boilerplate

[phw]

Just wanted to comment here because I have contributed some patches to Tilix since it's early days. I use Tilix daily, and I will for sure continue submitting patches if something itches me. In particular I will look into the localization of Tilix and make sure this stays up-to-date. I also will continue keeping an eye on the issues and commenting there if it is something I know about.

What I can not offer right now is taking over parts of real maintainership. I am pretty much in a similar situation as @gnunn1, I am already struggling to maintain some of my own projects properly.

Thanks to @gnunn1 for this excellent piece of software. It has been a joy using it in the last 3 years. I hope somebody will take over maintaining it.

[gnunn1]

@auvipy @andrei-pavel I don't have a set process in place, I think the easiest way as @andrei-pavel suggested is to start looking at issues and submitting PRs, comments to the issues. If things work out over the course of a month I'll add you to the repo so you can start submitting things directly.

If you need pointers to specific issues let me know and I'm happy to point out some that are smaller tasks.

I would also be happy to schedule a remote call where I'm happy to do a walkthrough of the code and project structure as well, answer questions, etc if it would be useful.

[ximion]

Have you thought about moving the project under the GNOME umbrella directly and have it maintained there? (You'd still need a new maintainer, but you would also have GNOME-knowledgeable people taking care of the basic project needs).

[gnunn1]

@ximion I have had discussions with some folks at GNOME about this in the past and decided against it for various reasons. I'd prefer letting a new maintainer make that discussion then make it for them.

[dogweather]

👍 for choosing multiple good candidates.

[ximion]

@gnunn1 That sounds like a very good plan :-)

[ernestask]

@ximion I have had discussions with some folks at GNOME about this in the past and decided against it for various reasons. I'd prefer letting a new maintainer make that discussion then make it for them.

How far in the past are we talking here? We now have a World namespace for community projects.

[gnunn1]

@ernestask It was at the time of the migration to GitLab, however my point remains, I'm not making any changes on this front as I prefer to leave the decision to the next maintainer.

[auvipy]

Hi, I recently joined the python packaging authority to maintain a few official packages. So my foss time will be invested there. I am no longer in a position to consider myself as a prospective maintainer of tilix anymore.

[Mutnick]

@gnunn1 Whatever happens -- thanks for Tilix!

Oh, A little issue maybe not worth an opening an issue... Updating today I noticed the constants.d version # wasn't bumped up, and still lists as version 1.9.1.

Thanks again