Maintainers needed

[bosd]

It seems like excalibur is dead:

• 7 sept 20202
• Last PyPI release: 2020-03-21 - @vinayak-mehta is the only owner
• Several PRs which look ready to be merged, but are still open
• Current release seems to be broken on modern systems. (win 10 refresh issue)

Only 10 contributors on the project.
New contributors are unable to open a PR.

Please update repo settings so others can open PR's.
Now there is an error:
Pull request creation failed. Validation failed: must be a collaborator

@MartinThoma , @vinayak-mehta

[foarsitter]

In my opinion we can best proceed in the same way with excalibur as with camelot.

-> Create an empty project with https://github.com/cjolowicz/cookiecutter-hypermodern-python
-> Merge code into new template
-> Make tests succeed
-> Run black + isort
-> Merge

[bosd]

Didn't know cookie cutter. Looks impressive.
Can you move forward with that?

[bosd]

@dimitern & @vinayak-mehta Could you please edit the repo settings so PR's can be opened. 🙏

@vinayak-mehta Could you please add more maintainers to Pypi.
You can add me, @foarsitter and possible give acces to a bot from the cookiecutter project, once that is setup.

[MartinThoma]

@foarsitter @bosd It seems to me that you care most about Excalibur / Camelot. Would you mind to give me your e-mail address (mine is [email protected]; you can just ping me via e-mail).

I have some ideas which I would like to discuss in private first.

[marcozzxx810]

Hi @MartinThoma, I also like to contribute more to camelot and Excalibur. Do you think you can loop me into the discussion?

my email: [email protected]

[MartinThoma]

@vinayak-mehta I do have the permission to merge (thank you :pray), but

1. No permission on PyPI. I cannot release
2. Not enough permissions on GitHub. I cannot change project settings (like the issue mentioned here or adding repository secrets for a release action) - same goes for camelot.

[marcozzxx810]

Except the release problem, what is the next step? Seem no one is maintaining issue, PR, milestones.

[MartinThoma]

@marcozzxx810 I'm currently writing to Vinayak to see if we can merge the camelot-dev organization into the py-pdf organization. This is why I wanted the e-mails of @bosd and @foarsitter as it might be easier to exchange thoughts in that private round than here publicly. Besides that, I would keep all discussions public.

I'm sorry to say this, but I think you have to be patient. I guess nothing will happen in the next two weeks. What will happen afterwards depends on Vinayaks opionion of moving camelot-dev into py-pdf or not. If we move, I'm very confident that the camelot community can make pretty rapid progress. I would mainly help with setting up CI / ensuring the handling of issues / PRs / releases works smoothly (likely not actual development).

[marcozzxx810]

Hi @MartinThoma, understood!

Sorry for being inpatient, just wish to know more about situations and have more visibility. Since there is no information/update in camelot repo.

Really appreciate your effort in communication. Keep us posted about the situation

[marcozzxx810]

For the two repo problems, have we reach out to the point of contact?

I guess we still need to settle that regardless of the migration happen or not.

[MartinThoma]

I am writing e-mails to @vinayak-mehta :-)

[marcozzxx810]

@MartinThoma any news/update?

[MartinThoma]

Sadly not.

To be honest, I'm pretty frustrated. I have enough permissions to feel responsible for the project, but not enough to actually improve it.

@vinayak-mehta If I don't have the full Github and PyPI permissions until 1st of November 2023, I'll give the permissions back and remove myself from the project.

[foarsitter]

Feeling the same as @MartinThoma, it should be fun but keep running into limitations isn't.

[evan54]

did this ever get resolved - is there a similar style replacement package that people can use?

[bosd]

ever get resolved - is there a similar style replacement package that people can use?

Sadly no, But we moved on and merged it into py-pdf organization.
The new home is here: https://github.com/py-pdf/pypdf_table_extraction