🚧🚧 Looking for backers 🚧🚧

[vonovak]

TL, DR;
We're looking for new collaborators or financial backers.

hello!
Allow me to be personal - I'm Vojtech, one of the maintainers of the datetimepicker module (and others). I've been involved in open source around React Native for a while because I really like it. Over the course of time though, I concluded that I do not want to spend much of my free time doing open source work (features, bugfixes, issue handling, docs...) that is used in for-profit projects. Please note I'm not using this module in any project I'm currently working on.

So, allow me to say openly: I do not plan to spend my free time on maintenance of this module unless I just feel like doing it for fun (irregularly), or unless I'm compensated for it.

This module has a number of bugs, missing features and open issues that require someone's attention. There are changes that need to be done to make the module work well and make consumers (that is you / your company 🙂 ) happy. We're looking for new collaborators that would help us with these. If you're interested, please don't hesitate to contribute - we'll help you if needed. Just to make it clear, I don't feel comfortable giving repo access rights to everyone unless they have some track record already (here or in other repos), so I'd first like to see an external contribution happen from a fork and after it all works out I will give those access rights :) Not having repo access rights does not prevent anyone from contributing.

If you want to ensure continued maintenance using money instead of your time, use the links below. Sponsorships will be used to compensate the time every maintainer spends working on this project. Talk to your boss about sponsoring OSS. Your support is much appreciated!

github sponsors profile
opencollective profile

If you have any questions, this is a good place to ask 🙂

Thank you! 🙂

For the people who are interested in contributing - I will be available to answer questions you may have but for the most part, I believe it is beneficial to follow the "just do it" advice given here: react-native-maps/react-native-maps#3564 (comment)

[akkravikumar]

Hi,

I would like to work as collaborator.

[vonovak]

Hello @akkravikumar,
Thanks for commenting! Do you have an idea of where you'd like to get involved? The way I see it, there are several categories of potential involvement:

• triage issues: many issues do not have good descriptions, so you can ask people for runnable reproductions there and fix the bugs that are reported. I also noticed that since we moved out of react native community organization, we don't have the same issue templates we had before (they are not in this repo now), so you could eg. make sure this repo has a proper issue template, such as this one
• work on missing features or bugs. I can point you to some, or if you walk through the issues, you'll find some - usually they collected a lot of comments over the course of time :)
• documentation: improving docs maybe by adding some screenshots for iOS14 and just clarifying stuff

Do you have any questions? Let me know what you think and what you prefer!
Feel free to just pick a task and open a PR!
Thanks for your interest!

[cbhaiji]

Not able to run on android

[akkravikumar]

Hi @vonovak
I would like to work on fixing bugs. I had the following issue(image attached) in iOS14 when tapping on date time field. After that i fixed the issue by removing textColor props. I'm sure i can able to fix the bugs/issues

Attached Image

<DateTimePickerModal
headerTextIOS="Pick a date & time"
isVisible={datePickerVisibility}
mode="datetime"
onConfirm={handleConfirm}
onCancel={hideDatePicker}
minimumDate={new Date(moment().subtract(1, 'days'))}
// textColor={"black"}. < ---- Simply remove this line then its working as expected
/>

[waheedakhtar694]

@vonovak I can spend my free time on it.

[Naturalclar]

@vonovak I can also spend my free time maintaining the project

[Yandamuri]

I have just started using this library for my new application and this message concerned me a bit. is it ok to continue with library?

[vonovak]

@Naturalclar hey, good to hear that, you're all over the place, don't forget to rest for a bit :D

@Yandamuri this is one of the few date picking libraries out there and several other directly depend on this one, so there isn't much choice AFAICT. If you care about the date picker in your app, you're encouraged to support the project as I outlined in the first post, thank you. :)

[rebeccatownsend-rally]

Hey @vonovak - I would like to help contribute to this project. I would like to help triage and resolve accessibility issues, however, please let me know if there is an additional or alternative way that I can contribute that would be more useful.

[vonovak]

@rebeccatownsend-rally thanks for your interest! I think most people contribute to OSS because they're scratching their own itch and so solving your own problem is a great way to get started - if you have some accessibility issues that you want to tackle, please go ahead :)
Otherwise, I try to keep the issue tracker more or less clean so that the issues are understandable and you should be able to go through them and find some issues that are actionable and can be implemented right away. If you open the example project, you'll be able to edit the source files and test the changes in the example app - that's the best way to get familiar with how the module works :)

I'll try to mark some issues as good-first-issue to flag those that should be easier to start with. Thanks!