Need to hand off to one or more people

[jeffalstott]

Hello powerlaw users and lovers,

I wrote powerlaw approximately a million years ago, but people are still using it and writing pull requests for meaningful improvements. This is great! However, I have not been able to seriously maintain the software for several years, and so I am a bottleneck for users and contributors doing great things with powerlaw. I am looking for for one or more people to take over running the show. At a technical level, I need to somehow hand the keys off to:

1. Pypi updates. Currently I am the sole owner of the Pypi home for powerlaw, and that needs to be expanded.
2. Git updates. The community needs to know to make updates to a specific repo that is widely used.

I will be listening for volunteers through the end of this calendar year (13 days). At that point I'll select some subset of people to add in.

Many thanks!
Jeff

P.S. Flagging everyone who has made a pull request to powerlaw. Thank you for your work and contributions!
@hjs2s
@henrymartin1
@kataev
@nsfzyzz
@mdf-github
@mountaindust
@wuhaochen
@PFischbeck
@cdown
@sx349
@RiptideBo
@Cils
@lneisenman
@AndreasBilke
@esafak
@keflavich
@drbild

[keflavich]

I'd be happy to help out. I'm actively using this package and have been advertising it to others as a better-maintained alternative to https://github.com/keflavich/plfit.

[hjs2s]

I just started using the package and I’m not deeply immersed in the statistics of power law tails, but I’m willing to contribute as well. From: Adam Ginsburg ***@***.***> Sent: Sunday, December 18, 2022 8:53 PM To: jeffalstott/powerlaw ***@***.***> Cc: Harvey Stein ***@***.***>; Mention ***@***.***> Subject: Re: [jeffalstott/powerlaw] Need to hand off to one or more people (Discussion #103) I'd be happy to help out. I'm actively using this package and have been advertising it to others as a better-maintained alternative to https://github.com/keflavich/plfit. — Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub<#103 (comment)>, or unsubscribe<https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/A4H6CV3YKLFPIAQQ7ST7T5DWN65XJANCNFSM6AAAAAATCZO2V4>. You are receiving this because you were mentioned.Message ID: ***@***.******@***.***>>

[Cils]

Hi Jeff I'm probably not the best person to take over since I haven't used powerlaw in several years. I moved to other research topics now but it was very useful for the work I have done for my PhD thesis. Thanks for writing and sharing it. Cheers Achille

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-- Dr. Achille Capelli Geophysical Institute University of Alaska ***@***.*** 206-618 74 99

On Sun, Dec 18, 2022 at 3:23 PM Jeff Alstott ***@***.***> wrote: Hello powerlaw users and lovers, I wrote powerlaw approximately a million years ago, but people are still using it and writing pull requests for meaningful improvements. This is great! However, I have not been able to seriously maintain the software for several years, and so I am a bottleneck for users and contributors doing great things with powerlaw. I am looking for for one or more people to take over running the show. At a technical level, I need to somehow hand the keys off to: 1. Pypi updates. Currently I am the sole owner of the Pypi home for powerlaw, and that needs to be expanded. 2. Git updates. The community needs to know to make updates to a specific repo that is widely used. I will be listening for volunteers through the end of this calendar year (13 days). At that point I'll select some subset of people to add in. Many thanks! Jeff P.S. Flagging everyone who has made a pull request to powerlaw. Thank you for your work and contributions! @hjs2s <https://github.com/hjs2s> @henrymartin1 <https://github.com/henrymartin1> @kataev <https://github.com/kataev> @nsfzyzz <https://github.com/nsfzyzz> @mdf-github <https://github.com/mdf-github> @mountaindust <https://github.com/mountaindust> @wuhaochen <https://github.com/wuhaochen> @PFischbeck <https://github.com/PFischbeck> @cdown <https://github.com/cdown> @sx349 <https://github.com/sx349> @RiptideBo <https://github.com/RiptideBo> @Cils <https://github.com/Cils> @lneisenman <https://github.com/lneisenman> @AndreasBilke <https://github.com/AndreasBilke> @esafak <https://github.com/esafak> @keflavich <https://github.com/keflavich> @drbild <https://github.com/drbild> — Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#103>, or unsubscribe <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/ACSCNN7WFAVTSA2QJQC7ILTWN6THJANCNFSM6AAAAAATCZO2V4> . You are receiving this because you were mentioned.Message ID: ***@***.***>

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[jeffalstott]

Thanks to @keflavich and @hjs2s for stepping forward!

• PyPI

  • I have invited "keflavich" as a Maintainer, which I assume is @keflavich. There is no "hjs2s" to invite; @hjs2s if you make an account under whatever name I will invite you as a Maintainer as well.
  • The PyPI version is a little behind the Github version, so it needs to be updated.
  • I confess I do not know if PyPI is still the best place to host Python packages. If you've another system to do instead or in addition, go nuts!

• Github

  • I have no experience with co-maintaining a repo on Github, including the IT of access controls or the best practices.
  • I have invited @keflavich and @hjs2s as Collaborators. I do not know what this does.
  • If you've another system to do instead or in addition, go nuts!

[henrymartin1]

Thank you Jeff for this great library and thanks to @keflavich<https://github.com/keflavich> and @hjs2s<https://github.com/hjs2s> to volunteer to help out! I think Pypi is still the best place to host python packages. For a package that I maintain we have automated the process of publishing the package to github. So whenever we create a new release it gets automatically shipped to pypi using a github action: https://github.com/marketplace/actions/pypi-publish I won’t be able to actively maintain the powerlaw package in terms of content but I am happy to help/assist/consult to setup github actions for publishing or testing (continuous integration) if you want. Best, Henry Von: Jeff Alstott ***@***.***> Gesendet: Sonntag, 1. Januar 2023 14:49 An: jeffalstott/powerlaw ***@***.***> Cc: Martin Henry ***@***.***>; Mention ***@***.***> Betreff: Re: [jeffalstott/powerlaw] Need to hand off to one or more people (Discussion #103) Thanks to @keflavich<https://github.com/keflavich> and @hjs2s<https://github.com/hjs2s> for stepping forward! * PyPI * I have invited "keflavich" as a Maintainer, which I assume is @keflavich<https://github.com/keflavich>. There is no "hjs2s" to invite; @hjs2s<https://github.com/hjs2s> if you make an account under whatever name I will invite you as a Maintainer as well. * The PyPI version is a little behind the Github version, so it needs to be updated. * I confess I do not know if PyPI is still the best place to host Python packages. If you've another system to do instead or in addition, go nuts! * Github * I have no experience with co-maintaining a repo on Github, including the IT of access controls or the best practices. * I have invited @keflavich<https://github.com/keflavich> and @hjs2s<https://github.com/hjs2s> as Collaborators. I do not know what this does. * If you've another system to do instead or in addition, go nuts! — Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub<#103 (comment)>, or unsubscribe<https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AHNBJEKJHI4ZQY424E5Z5TDWQGDOBANCNFSM6AAAAAATCZO2V4>. You are receiving this because you were mentioned.Message ID: ***@***.******@***.***>> [ { ***@***.***": "http://schema.org", ***@***.***": "EmailMessage", "potentialAction": { ***@***.***": "ViewAction", "target": "#103 (comment)", "url": "#103 (comment)", "name": "View Discussion" }, "description": "View this Discussion on GitHub", "publisher": { ***@***.***": "Organization", "name": "GitHub", "url": "https://github.com" } } ]