WANTED: cross-platform maintainers (Windows, OSX, TypeScript, etc)

[cronvel]

This lib is becoming huge and while I can keep up with the core mechanism, it's become harder and harder to support various OS and the ever-growing list of terminals. Also since I don't own Windows or OSX, I can't help much.

I'm also searching a TypeScript maintainer for the types, since I'm a vanilla JS Node coder, and I have no time to learn that at the moment.

Finally, a little help with the API documentation would be fine too (a native speaker, or someone very fluent with US english).

That's why I'm officially searching for maintainers, and I will keep the list of active one on this issue.
Feel free to comment here if you are wanting to help.

Windows maintainers:

• @dangilkerson

OSX maintainers:

• @katsanva
• @dangilkerson

TypeScript maintainers:

• @katsanva
• @dangilkerson

Documentation maintainers:

• @Abstract-Programming

[cronvel]

Possible maintainers that helped the project in the past:

• @katsanva (TypeScript) author of npm module types/terminal-kit
• @dangilkerson (OSX) (done PR Fix BACKSPACE issue #162 involving iTerm2 and terminal.app)
• @liquidg3 (OSX) (got the hanging PR Cross platform clipboard support #133)
• @apowers313 (OSX) (done PR initial osx terminal #127)
• @NuSkooler (Windows)

If you are interested, please chime in! (even if you are not listed!)

[katsanva]

@cronvel I can take care of TypeScript & OSX issues for sure

[cronvel]

@katsanva Great! Welcome aboard!

[dangilkerson]

@cronvel I can help out with windows and osx maintenance. I can also be a backup for typescript if needed.

[NuSkooler]

@cronvel My work is all under Linux so I'm not sure I can be much help in the Windows arena.

[katnova]

@cronvel I speak English natively, and would be willing to help out with maintaining documentation.

[cronvel]

@dangilkerson @Abstract-Programming Great! I added you to the official list of maintainers!

@NuSkooler Ok, I thought you were working on both OS, my misunderstanding ;)

[NuSkooler]

@cronvel Yeah just Linux. With that said if I can help in some way I'd like to.

[cronvel]

@NuSkooler Ok, let me know. Maybe maintainer for BBS? Or whatever you like.

[Digicrat]

I just came across this package, and am definitely liking it so far. It's certainly much easier to use than the old and unmaintained blessed.js library, even if it can't quite match all of it's functionality just yet.

I'd like to say that I'll help out with maintaining this project, but realistically I know that I won't have time to do much more than perhaps addressing any bugs (or trivial missing features) I might encounter as I start using it. On that vein, I just created a PR for adding row selection functionality to TextTable.

I will offer a few friendly suggestions for the project:

• Github recently added a 'Discussions' capability. You might want to enable that in the project Options to help separate discussions/questions from issues in the tracker.
• Use JSDoc syntax to embed documentation in the code, then run the jsdoc util to export HTML documentation of the API to be hosted via Github pages (with exported files pushed to a dedicated docs-only branch). That should help create the most complete documentation with minimal effort, and makes it easy to create/update the documentation as the library is updated.
• Long-term, I'd suggest migrating the code to ES6 style class { ... } syntax. That is of course functionally equivalent to the existing code, but imho easier to read, document and hence maintain in the long-term (and I do hope this project remains active for a long time).

[cronvel]

@Digicrat The project will remain active, but I could not work full time on it, because it obviously doesn't pay my bill! However it's a project I like, and it's my sole project that get some public attention at the moment, so it is important to me, especially as a freelance developer, to push it further, it's a sort of business card in a sense...

However, I can only improve it on my free time, since it's hardly part of my daily job, so it is usually only improved by short burst once in a while.

[pwilkowski]

@katsanva Would it be possible to export typescript definitions once more? Or at least share how did you do it? I've tried dts-gen however without success. Library is awesome however TS definitions are very old and does not support things like tables.

[katsanva]

@pwilkowski will definitely do it when I got a moment