Passing on maintainership

[withoutboats]

I don't have the time & interest to maintain this crate anymore, it would be awesome to have other people figure out how to distribute maintainership responsibilities.

cc @carols10cents @wking @ltratt

[wking]

I'm happy to chip in occasionally, but I have no Rust, so I'm unlikely to be useful for technical issues.

[ltratt]

If no-one else wants to do this (@carols10cents ?), I'd be prepared to take on maintainership, although I'd very happily defer to someone else!

[carols10cents]

My interest is mostly because crates.io uses license-exprs to validate uploaded crates' licenses, so this crate is important Rust infrastructure. I'm happy to have someone else maintain it, and now that it's under rust-lang-nursery there are more folks who can help manage permissions and such :)

I'm going to create a license-exprs team, invite wking and ltratt to it, and give yinz permissions to maintain this repo :)

[carols10cents]

@withoutboats when you have a chance, could you add rust-lang-nursery:cargo and rust-lang-nursery:license-exprs as owners on crates.io?

[withoutboats]

added cargo, only a member of a team can add it so i couldnt add license-exprs

[wking]

only a member of a team can add it so i couldnt add license-exprs

That's very strange. Does the crate owner really have to join a team before they can add the team as a team-owner? We may need a crates.io admin to get the crate unstuck.

Also, from the docs it seems like this project will need at least one named owner to manage access. @carols10cents, would that be you? I'm also ok with making everybody with write access a named owner of the crate ;).

[wking]

We may need a crates.io admin to get the crate unstuck.

Actually, it looks like we need someone with the rust-lang-nursery owner bit (list here) to unstick this for us.

[carols10cents]

@withoutboats I added you to the license-exprs team, sorry about that, so you should be able to add that team as an owner now. You can also/instead add me as a named owner if you want :)

[Nemo157]

Any update on maintainership of this repository? I would love to use this library for parsing of licenses in cargo-lichking, but at the moment I'm not sure if a PR implementing that (i.e. issue #13) would have anyone to review it.

I'm also more than willing to help maintain this library if you are still looking for more maintainers.

[wking]

… at the moment I'm not sure if a PR implementing that (i.e. issue #13) would have anyone to review it.

I'm happy to review, and I have the commit bit here, but I don't have much Rust experience.

I also still don't have push access to this crate on crates.io, which makes me merging things here not all that useful ;). @withoutboats, can you run:

$ cargo owner --add carols10cents 

or:

$ cargo owner --add wking

so one of us becomes a named owner authorized of further crate administration? Alternatively, can someone with crates.io admin access make that happen directly?

[sunfishcode]

Any update here? I have a crate I wish to publish with a SPDX 3.1 license, and it appears to be blocked on someone pushing a new version of license-exprs to crates.io.

[withoutboats]

I have added the license-exprs org as an owner of this crate. So sorry, I thought this was resolved a long time ago!

[wking]

I have added the license-exprs org as an owner of this crate.

That's probably enough for me to be able to push new releases, but we need a named owner to manage ownership (e.g. if another team should be added or removed later). @withoutboats, can you make either @carols10cents or myself (or both of us) a named owner?

[withoutboats]

Added both of you as owners, didn't realize there was a restriction on team owners