Announcement: looking for new maintainers

[njoyard]

More details on the wiki.

[Calvin-he]

@njoyard I am using this library to merge mp3s.
I wonder what's the required skills does the maintainer should have?

[njoyard]

@Calvin-he The required skills are simple : 1. being a user of fluent-ffmpeg, 2. being willing to help, 3. being respectful to others :)

[njoyard]

@gvsro would you be interested?

[xedsvg]

@njoyard definitely.

[mstallmo]

@njoyard I use this library at work to do some video to image processing and would be interested in helping out any way I can!

[willfe]

I'd be happy to volunteer to take on maintainer duties if you'd like. I currently use fluent-ffmpeg regularly for transcoding, and I've got a neat script I've been using for a year or so now that automates its use (come to think of it, I should publish that, too). I use it on both Linux and Windows systems and I do have access to a Macbook as well for testing as needed.

I like to think I have an easy-going demeanor suitable to project coordination, supporting users and answering questions, but feel free to grill me if you want to make sure 😁

Out of curiosity, what are you using instead of fluent-ffmpeg these days? Or did you stop using it because you just aren't doing a lot with ffmpeg in general now?

[sharunspi]

@njoyard I would like to maintain fluent FFmpeg repo.. I use it in my organization for various operations and I am a node js developer.
I surely satisfy these requirements

• being a user of fluent-FFmpeg
• being willing to help
• being respectful to others

[mandaputtra]

Hello, I would like to volunteer! It is been a long time since I use this lib but right now I'm back at this lib again, I do have a free time. Maybe right now I can help you to close issues, tagging it, as question/bug/feature and reviewing code on pull request, testing it etc.

Let me clone this repo and start understanding the underlying code ~ I'll start commenting on some issues, let me see If I can resolve it.

[ashwins93]

@njoyard do we still not have any maintainers? Or is there another popular fork of this library. Thank you for your work, this is so useful.

[adityapatadia]

@njoyard we have our team who is willing to work on this. Can we connect over call to discuss maintenance?

This project seems to be very popular and we don't want to fork. If we can figure out some way to contribute and move fast, it would be best for everyone. Last resort will be fork which I am not really going to like.

[ricfio]

Hi @njoyard
I read your announcement from May 2018 about looking for a new maintainer, and many of the old replies from people who would like contribute to the development of fluent-ffmpeg.

However, it seems that none of them are actively contributing at this time.

There are may Issues and PR, so I would like to offer some of my free time to contribute or act as a minor mantainer, if you are interested.
(I have submitted PR #1292)

So, why haven't you engaged any of the maintainer candidates?
Unity is strength!