Maintenance of planetpython.org

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Hope this is the right place to ask about this (i couldnt find another discuss category that would be a better fit). i would like to bring up the situation of planet python: the github repo Commits · python/planet · GitHub has not seen a commit since March 2022, and there are some easy PR/issues that could be addressed (the most annoying one being Remove ItsMyCode for spamming · Issue #521 · python/planet · GitHub).

I’m a core developer, and i wouldnt mind taking over maintenance of that repo: how to i “apply”? :slight_smile:

thanks!

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Moved this to PSF, but I’m not sure if they’re the ones to talk about website maintenance with either.

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Would like to offer the same. Project seems to experience major struggle…

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No reply at official Python project bugtrackers for 7 days, no reply in the official forums for asking how to help with the - obviously - struggling PSF-Project for more than 24 hours … does Python have any volunteer-issues? Again: How to help?

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I have no idea who has write access to this repository. Does Github provide any way of finding out?

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I don’t believe there’s a maintenance issue at hand. It just sometimes takes a few days for people to notice PRs and it’s vacation time at the moment :slight_smile:

In any case, I had a look and found that I could merge the PR, so I did. I don’t seem to be getting notifications for PRs on that repo, though. I fixed that, so there’s an additional set of eyes to watch for changes now.

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No worries and many thanks. My main question was as someone who isn’t a maintainer, how do I find out who is a maintainer? I went onto the project page because I wasn’t sure if I might be (as a member of the Python organisation) and the only way I appeared to be able to find out was the fact that I wasn’t able to merge the PR.

(To be clear, I’m not asking to be made a maintainer :slight_smile:)

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That is a good question indeed. I tried to find out who else has merge rights to the repo and couldn’t. There’s no “Settings” tab to click on for me.

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One way to find out who has rights in a repo is to go to the PRs tab and see who has recently merged to the repo.

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Admins can check at Settings > Access > Collaborators (this is 404 if you don’t have access).

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Yeah, I’ve used that before. But as a non-admin, I can’t do that. Maybe it’s deliberate so that the average user can’t find the maintainers and ping them directly, but have to go through the tracker? But that seems a bit of a stretch, TBH…

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Hi,

Actually, for a few years now I have had the rights to merge the work of the community and lately, I have been in charge of the PRs. Unfortunately, between work, family, sports, and the community, I’ve been neglecting the Python community in favor of work. Although I did check once in a while if there were any PRs to check.

Yesterday, @malemburg sent me a private message to let me know there was a problem and so, today I started to manage the PRs/issues that were open.

Please accept my sincere apologies.

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I have write access to planetpython repo, but I haven’t been actively watching the repo.
If @malemburg and @matrixise are not available, and I can be their backup if needed.

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Sorry to bump this old thread, happy to open a new one if required.

I opened a PR on python/planet back in November 2023 to add the HoloViz blog, and got no answer so far. Is there any way I could help to help this PR cross the finish line?

I visit Planet Python a few times a week and find it to be a very good source of information for what’s going on in the Python landscape.

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I just merged it. Thank you.

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