Looking for maintainers (and Thank You to the community!)

[davesque]

Hey folks! So Simple JWT has really come a ways in terms of popularity (further than I probably would have imagined). For that, I owe a big "Thank you!" to the community of Django and REST devs that have used and contributed to the project!

However, for a while now I haven't had a lot of time to devote to addressing issues and feature requests. My professional life dominates my schedule and it also hasn't tended to involve much REST API development in recent years. But the library continues to enjoy widespread use. Contributors request/develop features and identify usability/security issues on a daily basis. I don't have enough time in my personal schedule to serve all of the community's needs! But I want to see the project continue to succeed.

For that reason, I'm interested in hearing from any devs that wish to become involved in maintaining this project. I'm particularly interested in hearing from devs who have contributed to this project in the past and/or who can demonstrate experience with similar engineering projects. Significant histories of open source contribution are obviously a plus! If you're located in Boulder, CO (which is in the US), that's also a huge plus. We could potentially meet in person to get acquainted.

Please reply to this issue if you think you match the above criteria! I'm looking forward to hearing from all of you!

[Andrew-Chen-Wang]

@davesque Did you try to move this to JazzBand? This repository is used a lot and was the only maintained JWT package for Django.

[rfschubert]

Hi there, I'm contributor of Masonite project, and currently I'm using Django-rest-framework-simplejwt on many projects.

We use many open source projects inside of our company and I'll be glad to offer to help maintain it :)

ps. currently I'm using mostly Gitlab as repo of my private projects, so my contribution graph here is being very simple last months :)

[Andrew-Chen-Wang]

@davesque Any progress in getting a maintainer? If not, I'll go and ask JazzBand if they would like to maintain this. I would also be happy to assist in maintenance if JazzBand doesn't work out BUT I can't be alone; basically, I would need someone (maybe multiple people) to help maintain.

[dqjackso]

I'm interested in being a maintainer!

[davesque]

@Andrew-Chen-Wang I applied to join JazzBand, but haven't received any response yet.

[davesque]

@Andrew-Chen-Wang Actually, I think I might make an open source github org for this. If so, care to be a member?

[Andrew-Chen-Wang]

@davesque Sure, I’m down. Looking forward to it.

[catalincoroeanu]

@davesque you can count me in too...

Thanks in advance

[guillaumevincent]

Hello here, I can help you if needed for issues triaging for example, or code review.
I'm the creator and maintainer of https://github.com/lesspass/lesspass 3.8k stars

[pauloxnet]

@davesque consider moving the project to @jazzband also dj-rest-auth was moved there and there's a PR to replace rest_framework_jwt with django-rest-framework-simplejwt

[stunaz]

So what's the roadmap?

[Andrew-Chen-Wang]

@stunaz Currently, there is a big PR regarding support for HTTP cookies for SPAs. @pauloxnet Apparently, Dave already tried going to Jazzband awhile ago, but there was no response. There's also an "experimental feature" using the TokenUser model that you can play around with. I haven't had the time to consider the security measures of it and its future full-time use, though. Otherwise, there are a couple members in the SImpleJWT org that'll try to update this repo as much as possible and answer as many issues, too.

This library is also under MIT license. Although, we don't have a CONTRIBUTORS.txt, we could spin one up really quickly once someone opens and issue for it.

[mjlabe]

Considering dj-rest-auth just officially switched to django-rest-framework-simplejwt, JazzBand may be more interested now. I would definitely volunteer some time to be a maintainer (mostly selfish since I want my PR's merged) but I could also try contacting JazzBand to point out how integral this is.