AllContributors CLI - Release 27.0 & Welcome Justin as a new maintainer!

[lwasser]

Hi everyone 👋🏻 I came here to update everyone on where we are with the project!!

Welcome, Justin, to the maintenance team

I wanted to take a minute to welcome @jdalrymple to our lovely all contributors project!! Justin has been helping out a LOT on the project and is now part of the maintainer team. We are lucky to have you here Justin!! Take a minute to say hello to Justin in the comments below if you have time!!

Updates on the CLI

The CLI work is moving forward, and we have access to NPM thanks to the original maintainers, who we emailed and were very kind about sharing access. 🎉

The CLI had so many outdated dependencies that we spent a lot of time updating them and the code/tests accordingly. I think our next big chunk of work will be migrating from the older CommonJS node syntax to ESM. That shouldn't be a heavy lift; it's just a lot of files being touched.

And then we can still fill in test gaps as needed.

I created a milestone for the release of the CLI 27.0 and setup release please to support automating part of our release workflows. And would love help if anyone is great at triaging issues and moving things to the board that needs to be done before we can create our first release (in 3 years!!! phew!!).

We are very close to a new release, and when we cut it, hopefully, folks here can help us test to ensure we didn't break anything!! 🫶

We are still at a bit of a standstill with the app/bot as we don't have deployment access or the ability to test things, but there is so much to do on the CLI that it's ok for now and perhaps in the future we can recruit some other maintianers who are excited about apps and bots to help us decode that part of the puzzle!! ✨

thank you all for being here. and please don't forget to welcome Justin to our awesome team!!!

[JimMadge]

How much would extra help be appreciated for pushing through the CLI release?

I got a bit distracted with translations for the website but I want to stick to that because I feel we are quite close to achieving that.

[lwasser]

Hi!! If you are close on the translations i'd say keep going there because it would be awesome to have that online and it would complement the work we are doing to update the project. In terms of how close - we are very close now!!

i created this milestone to help us get over the home stretch!! https://github.com/all-contributors/cli/issues?q=is%3Aissue%20state%3Aopen%20milestone%3A%22Release%2027.0%22

So essentially we need a few more updates to dependencies and then we need to create the release workflow

and we need to decide on the changelog format. If you had time for one thing i would LOVE your input (and anyone elses please!!) on how we organize the changelog.

all-contributors/cli#455

Again this is just a pr that creates the changelog and then updates it as we work. It doesn't actually trigger a release right now. i'll add that last!

[JimMadge]

Great to have you on the team @jdalrymple 🎉. You're already making big contributions 🚀

[JoshuaKGoldberg]

Welcome @jdalrymple, it's great to have you! 🙌

[jdalrymple]

Glad to be here 👋 😄

[lwasser]

Hey everyone check this out - trusted publishing is I think working now

To test it out please use:
npm install package-name@next

Let me know if it works for you all!!