We now have co-maintainers / State of the project

Hi all,

unfortunately I’ve been unable to maintain this project for the past months, due to unforeseen reasons (more long-form explanation here).

Given the popularity of puppeteer-extra this had quite an impact, with no PRs and updates being merged and published.

Despite things going back to normal on my end I’m therefore looking for contributors who might be interested in taking on a more active role on this project (triaging issues, merging PRs, pushing new versions). Especially stealth & detection evasion techniques are fast-paced and quite the burden to maintain for a single maintainer.

In order to ensure the viability and longevity of puppeteer-extra it’s crucial that updates don’t hinge on the availability of a single person. Given the subject matter this project also attracts a lot of less experienced developers as well, resulting in a lot of “noise” in the issue tracker that still needs to be managed.

Let me know if you’d be interested in supporting this project more actively, I’ll also reach out to contributors that stood out in the past. 😃

Thanks!

edit: we now have 6 awesome collaborators who stepped up. 🎉 If you feel you’d be interested in participating as well just mention it here. 😃

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Update: I’m currently doing the following:

• Getting up to speed with the latest developments (PRs, Playwright, etc)
• Make CI go green and merge in PRs to make puppeteer-extra compatible with Puppeteer 5 asap (#228, #240) - Done: #243
• Reviewing & simplifying the CI setup to be more robust (extremely important if more people are involved)
• Preparing to add contributors (Done: https://github.com/berstend/puppeteer-extra/issues/238#issuecomment-655314232) and setting up PR merging/review flows in Github

[berstend]

Awesome, thanks a lot for the interest and re-assuring feedback - much appreciated. 😃

I’m getting up to speed with the current state of things (e.g. playwright) this weekend and start making adjustments. Given that we can lock PR merging to require 2 approvals I don’t see an issue inviting devs who haven’t contributed code before.

@Niek - great to see you’re interested 😃

I will update this ticket with a public list of next steps/todos once I have an overview.

Just to clarify: I’ll still be active and involved in the project, given the speed of progress required in this space it’s just the right time to open things up.

Looking forward to the massive updates that’ll follow. 🚀

[brunogaspar]

I’m interested to help, since i was planing to release a super light version with mainly the stealth techniques and some minor improvements, but, since the intention is to move forward here, i don’t see the need to have a separate package.

But either way, having the project moving forward would be quite nice 😃

Thanks!