Add more maintainers

[waldyrious]

There are several issues and PRs that are somewhat stalled due to lack of active maintainers. Would it be possible to give a few more people commit rights, @karbassi? That way the project could continue to evolve; otherwise, people may start looking into forking the repository, which IMO would be bad for the todo.txt ecosystem.

[waldyrious]

Also tagging the other members of the todotxt org: @evanp, @ginatrapani and @inkarkat.

[dessalines]

This format has been unmaintained for years now, and development on most apps (except for one on android) has all but ceased.

I highly suggest switching to https://github.com/tasks/tasks , which has much more development.

I've recently written a todo.txt -> tasks.org importer here: https://github.com/dessalines/tasks-org-todo-txt-import

[inkarkat]

I wouldn't say unmaintained, rather quite mature. That said, @karbassi hasn't responded to anything for many months (even though he's still active on GitHub), which worries me (initially I had just assumed he's currently busy, and will pick up things later), and I fully agree that more maintainers would certainly be welcome (but is there anybody who would volunteer?)

I've been responding to issues and questions on https://github.com/todotxt/todo.txt-cli, and I could integrate outstanding pull requests there; however, the agreement had been that @karbassi would drive this and I'm just providing comments and a bit of help on the side, and I currently also lack knowledge and access rights to do todo.txt-cli releases.

[karbassi]

Hello all! I am still here and reading over all the messages. I am to be more active in the new year, after the holiday season.

I am all for adding more active maintainers, though. Let me know who is interested.

[dessalines]

I wouldn't say unmaintained, rather quite mature

Its definitely unmaintained. Look at the PRs on this repo. None of the maintainers have commented on most of them, and some have been open for 4 years now.

[waldyrious]

Thanks @inkarkat and @karbassi for the update! I would like to propose @clach04 for a maintainer.

I have been watching this repository for a while, and noticed that they have been commenting in several issues and PRs and IMHO demonstrating a good understanding of the project and a thoughtful, prudent approach with their comments and the proposals they put forth.

Not that anyone should make decisions unilaterally, no matter how sensible their reasoning is; but there should be someone actively reacting to the community activity and implementing broad consensus that forms around such discussions, as long as that doesn't go against previous stances of the project.

[clach04]

This format has been unmaintained for years now, and development on most apps (except for one on android) has all but ceased.

I highly suggest switching to https://github.com/tasks/tasks , which has much more development.

I've recently written a todo.txt -> tasks.org importer here: https://github.com/dessalines/tasks-org-todo-txt-import

Tasks looks neat, thanks for sharing. I do use Android so I should check this out. I have different needs for todo lists depending on the arena (I deliberately don't mix home/work for instance as that works better for my brain). I do a lot of todo view/editing on non-Android platforms so I'm unlikely to move away from todo.txt but I like the thought of a nice sync server with existing standards. Good share!

I do really like https://github.com/mpcjanssen/simpletask-android for Android todo.txt management.

[clach04]

Hello all! I am still here and reading over all the messages. I am to be more active in the new year, after the holiday season.

I am all for adding more active maintainers, though. Let me know who is interested.

Yay! I hope all is well with you.

Thanks @waldyrious for the vote of confidence! I appreciate the warm comments :-) I'd be happy to pitch in every now and again. I can't commit to super-fast responses, I'm definitely going to have things that have to take higher priority. I'm sure you are in the same position where one does not had the time and/or energy wanted/needed to devote to projects.

[clach04]

@karbassi I'm only an occasional user of https://github.com/todotxt/todo.txt-cli so for what it's worth the code changes/PRs from @inkarkat that I've seen look clean and clear.

Hi everyone.

I wanted to know if the project is active, because I would like to contribute with some ideas, codes, implementations. Follow the list of ideas:

Idea

todo-txt & yaml-spec 1

---
  title: 'search'
  description: 'search for best website'
  completed: 'yes'

todo-txt & yaml-spec 2

---
A: 'Search for Best Website ::: https://www.google.com/'
B: 'This is effectively the title ::: this is effectively like a newline or "ignorable" area for most clients'
C: 'Register for appointment at DMV ::: https://some.long.dmv.url.gov/form/some-thing/here.cfm'
D: 'A complicated issue ::: { "json": "blob", "goes": "...here..." }'

todo-txt & theme tododoist

todo-txt & github-readme-stats

another idea?

I wanted to create documentation of todo-txt in docsify and an version todo-txt in RFC.

question/feedback

what you all think of the idea?

[inkarkat]

@karbassi commented on Dec 18, 2022

Hello all! I am still here and reading over all the messages. I am to be more active in the new year, after the holiday season.

I don't see any progress, not here nor over at https://github.com/todotxt/todo.txt-cli, where pull requests have been queuing up. Will you be able to dedicate some time to this project in the near future? Or at least officially announce your unavailability and add some more maintainers, as requested in this issue?

[sycam0r-e]

I have been using todo.txts and related applications for some time now. I think todo.txt is an important standard due to its simpicity and versatility.

As a total project outsider and a non-dev, but as an enthusiast for FLOSS software and standards and protocols allow me to add my perspective.

It is an utter shame that todo.txt is slowly dying simply because the original maintainers' vanity prevents them from adding more maintainers. Simple as that. I am really grateful to the original maintainers for having done what they did. However, they are destroying their own work and let others suffer due to their negligence. If you cannot, for whatever reason, maintain this project reasonably, at least be reasonable enough to add some of these motivated and knowledgable folks here as maintainers (not me).

Please.

[karbassi]

@karbassi commented on Dec 18, 2022

Hello all! I am still here and reading over all the messages. I am to be more active in the new year, after the holiday season.

I don't see any progress, not here nor over at https://github.com/todotxt/todo.txt-cli, where pull requests have been queuing up. Will you be able to dedicate some time to this project in the near future? Or at least officially announce your unavailability and add some more maintainers, as requested in this issue?

Hello @inkarkat and others. This is a valid criticism and I hear you. I've been trying hard to carve out time in my life to review and maintain this (and other) projects. However, I have dropped the ball.

@inkarkat, as one of the main (and active) maintainers of the project, can you nominate a few new maintainers and we can review and add them. I want to see this project continue and grow.