Anyone Interested in Taking over Jsweet.org?

A bunch of people will come out of the woodwork drawn to the idea of being able to immediately walk into managing a popular project, but it'll end poorly. If your project has outgrown you, or you've outgrown your project, then you can either shut it down gracefully or transition into community ownership (by finding people who have a demonstrable pre-existing interest in the project itself and allowing them to take over).

Shutting the project down gracefully doesn't mean it has to end, and it doesn't mean failure: shutting down the project gives invested community members the chance to fork it and demonstrate that they want to put the work in to run a natural successor to your project, and people will naturally gravitate towards the best fork over time. Afterall, without people with a vision leading it, it's just code.

Handing over ownership feels cleanest but it's rarely the best outcome (unless you're handing it over to a natural successor).

clickable link: https://www.jsweet.org/ - A transpiler from Java to TypeScript/JavaScript

I used jsweet to accomplish something really cool once, bringing pieces of an archaic, tried-and-true java codebase into the browser. I had to downgrade java to accomplish it, and I had to manually fiddle with the outputted typescript, but I'm overall very grateful for JSweet (and my users would be too if they only knew). I hope there's a future for it.

Hi Renaud,

Just wanted to say thank you for creating and support jsweet all these years :) I hope you find a good owner.

There was a GitHub org of “maintainers who want to maintain deaf projects” and had a formal adoption/governance process as well. I don’t remember if it catered to JS, but I can’t find it right now.

Didn't know about that project. Looks awesome. What are some cool java libraries to use in node.js?