helping the maintenance bus factor

[RonnyPfannschmidt]

It seems that maintenance has come to a halt,
in this issue i want to prepare communicating current factors and/or enable a call for help

the goal being documenting the current state,
so people have a idea what to expect while the shortage of committable volunteer time means less happens
as well as organizing additional volunteers that can help the process.

CC @pytest-dev/pytest-asyncio-admin

[Tinche]

It's true, since my time is spread between a lot of other projects at this point I essentially only make sure this plugin works on new Pythons.

Note that I actively use the plugin on a daily basis, so despite the amount of issues I know the plugin actually works. But I would welcome some qualified help, of course.

[RonnyPfannschmidt]

@Tinche its great to know that you are indeed a regular user and the minimum is secured

as for qualified help - would it be ok if i did a call for help using the pytestorg twitter account nd may i mention you and/or would you like to do the call for help so we can add reach to it?

[Tinche]

Ugh I think if we do a call for help on Twitter we will get a ton of unqualified help, which will be even more work. Can we get some pytest folks in first? So maybe through the mailing list?

[RonnyPfannschmidt]

yes we can, i agree that the qualification filtering can be quite a pain

do you want to try to get something out to the pytest-dev ml or would you like for me to draft something up between the days

[Tinche]

Would appreciate assistance ;)

[RonnyPfannschmidt]

i'll spend time on this between christmas and the new year
i wont mind anyone beating me to it tho ;P

[RonnyPfannschmidt]

initial email to pytest-dev is out

[asvetlov]

Well, I can help with the maintenance.
I use pytest-asyncio at my daily job and maintain asyncio itself as a part of CPython.

[RonnyPfannschmidt]

@Tinche in addition to @asvetlov , @seifertm also reached out on the ml

i haven't yet found the time to look deeply into them, but at first glance it looks like both of them bring good experience

do you already have some rough idea of them so we can cut it short, else i'll take a deeper look mid week (my initial impression is good)

[Tinche]

I would be very glad to have @asvetlov and @seifertm as fellow maintainers.

As a first step: do you folks have any PRs yourselves that I should review ASAP? If yes I will do so.

As a second step: I will defer to your judgement on what PRs to merge in and what issues to close/not close.

After a while when we've built up a working relationship, I'm happy giving you folks commit rights here on GitHub and co-ownership on PyPI.

[asvetlov]

I have no my PRs.
There is a pull request from @seifertm #192 which looks good to me.