How can I get administrator rights to django-prometheus

[spapas]

Hey friends, I recently joined django-commons with the sole purpose of getting administrator rights to the django-prometheus project so as to finally create a new release with support for Django 6.0 (see this issue django-commons/django-prometheus#494). Please notice that the corresponding PR is already merged django-commons/django-prometheus#489 however there's no new release for more than 1 month now.

This issue is blocking many people (including me of course) from upgrading to Django 6.0.

Can you help me with the next steps on how to become an admin to this project? Or if this ain't possible right now, can somebody nudge the current admins/maintainers so as to create a new release that would help us upgrade?

PS I know I can point to the master branch directly in my reqs but this always leads to problems in my setup so I avoid it unless it is absolutely required (abandoned projects).

[tim-schilling]

Hi @spapas. I believe we would only grant admin rights to someone if the project was abandoned. I would not consider a month of inactivity to indicate abandonment. I think we'd also want to look at who has committed to the project in the past as well as prospects' prior contributions to the python and Django ecosystems.

Regarding "pinging the maintainers", I can see about 7 or 8 comments over the past month on the issue or PR. Let's give the maintainers the benefit of the doubt here. They are volunteering their time and OSS typically ends up being a lower priority when compared to a paying job, family and life.

[tim-schilling]

Regardless I'll bring this up in the next @django-commons/admins meeting.

[spapas]

Thank you @tim-schilling for your kind responce. Yes probably 1 month isn't very much. We'll wait and hopefully somebody will release a new version soon.

Kind regards,
Serafeim

[Stormheg]

Agree with Tim - the maintainer should be allowed more time to respond before us Django Commons admins step in do something without the current maintainers explicit consent.

It looks like django-prometheus has only one maintainer. If this project is important to you, I would encourage you to open a new issue and offer to help out with maintenance. Additional help is likely going to be welcomed by the current maintainer.