[ANN] Looking for new LuaJIT maintainers

From: Mike Pall <mike-1507@xxxxxxxxxx>

To: luajit@xxxxxxxxxxxxx

Date: Fri, 31 Jul 2015 15:49:33 +0200

It has been almost 10 years since the first public release of LuaJIT.

It's time for me to move on.



I'm looking for new maintainers to take over the LuaJIT project.



I would like to see LuaJIT to be well maintained and wisely evolved

into the future. I want to give it in trusted hands. A group of people

with different responsibilities would be best.



For this, the project needs to be set up differently. And, at least in

the beginning, it needs some manpower to organize people, to set up

repos, bug trackers, accounts, etc.



I'm happy to announce that CloudFlare has offered to take over

stewardship for the LuaJIT project. This will certainly aid in making

it a smooth transition.



CloudFlare has a vested interest in the future of LuaJIT: they're one

of the biggest users of LuaJIT and they've sponsored valuable LuaJIT

features in the past. I fully trust CloudFlare to fulfill this

stewardship while preserving the goals and the spirit of LuaJIT.



Please note that stewardship does not mean ownership. The maintainers

and contributors decide. A stewardship is mainly a commitment to help

organize a group of developers. And to solve some issues that may be

difficult for individual contributors.





If you would like to help shape the future of LuaJIT as part of a team

of maintainers, please apply here on the mailing list. Thank you!





All of that said: don't worry, LuaJIT is in good shape and it's NOT

going away! It's open source, it has a great community. It just needs

a new management.



Also, I'm still around, I'll answer technical questions, and I'll

promise to take a look at the really tricky bug reports. But I want to

reduce my engagement over time.



I think it should be possible for the transition phase to happen

during the next 1 or 2 months.



That's also the time frame when I'll move LuaJIT 2.1 (as-is) into beta

and cut the 2.1.0 release. Maybe a few things are missing, but 2.1 has

valuable new features and it's stable. There will be a 2.2, 2.3, etc.

for new features.





I'd be really delighted if the discussion here on the mailing list

would focus on the future of LuaJIT. Let's leave the drama and

speculation to the social networks -- they'll have a busy weekend.



--Mike





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