Future of this project - tell me what you think!

[stuartherbert]

Hi everyone,

First of all - I didn't realise that so many people use this project. I currently don't have any way of finding that out until issues are posted! It feels like I need to fix that. How would be best? A mailing list? IRC? Something else? Please let me know you'd like to see this done.

Some of you may not be aware that I left DataSift several years ago, and now run my own little company. I haven't been updating the project because v1.5.2 has been stable for me for the work that I do. I'm just about to release v1.5.3, with a much-needed bugfix for empty pathspec errors.

But where do we, as the gitflow/hubflow community, want to see the project go from here? Please let me know in the comments on this issue.

• The number 1 thing for me is to move this out to its own GitHub organisation, so that we can grow the maintainers community beyond just little old me :)

And are there any firms out there that would be interested in sponsoring new features and/or maintenance of this project? Now that I work for myself, this would help me spend more time on the project.

Let me know what you think!

Best regards,
Stu

[jeffreyscottgraham]

I suggest using github for everything: source, issues, branches, everything. Anyone can git a github account and 'follow' the project if they want to receive updates or help with patches.

[thewalkingtoast]

I think you can ask Homebrew for analytics on installed count. I use hubflow from there and when I onboard new devs at my company, I always install it from there as well. The "model" is still good; some fixes and updates for recent git versions would be a good first step after the GH org.

[madorb]

I've been using this for many years now and make sure everyone i work with knows about it as well... it's definitely got users out there! I totally agree with @jeffreyscottgraham that using github for everything would be ideal!