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Take It Over
A list of open-source project looking for a new maintainer/lead developer.
How it works
- Look through the list of available projects
- Take a close look at interesting projects
- Make sure your have enough free time to maintain the project
- Write to the current maintainer (using linked Github account)
- If all agree, the repository will probably be moved to an own organisation
- The current maintainer will support you very intensively in the beginning so you will know how to use the git workflow, versions, builds, deployments, etc.
Rules
- You agree to not change the license to something properitary
- You agree to maintain the project as best as you can (taking over a project only for the reputation is a no-go)
- The current maintainer helps your in the beginning to get things going.
Why?
Why would you do that? Let me give you some points:
- Your whole (technical) life is based on open-source. Giving something back is simply fair.
- You get some reputation by supporting/maintaining well used open-source projects. Companies like developer that are dedicated to open-source projects.
- You increase your know-how automatically.
Add your project
Send a pull-request with your project.
List
Javascript
- marcj/css-element-queries by @marcj - Widely used CSS-Element-Queries Polyfill (1500+ stars, 10k installs/month, looking for new owner)
- marcj/angular2-localstorage by @marcj - very new and trending library for automatically store properties in localStorage for Angular2 (120+ stars, ~1000 installs/month, looking for new owner)
PHP
- jarves.io github.com/jarves/jarves by @marcj - New CMS/Application Framework based on Symfony (220+ stars, looking for new lead developer)
- marcj/php-rest-service by @marcj - A very simple and fast PHP class for server-side RESTful JSON APIs. (140+ stars, ~600 intalls/month, looking for new owner)