Seeking Tectonic Co-Maintainers

2023 November 27

As I posted on the Tectonic GitHub Discussion area, I’m seeking one or more people to serve as co-maintainers for the Tectonic project. Please send me an email if you might be interested.

For a bit more context, check out my Discussions post. Basically, it’s become clear to me that I just don’t have the bandwidth to maintain the project as well as it deserves, and I can’t realistically expect that to change any time soon. I’ve been reluctant to say that I’m feeling “burned out” on Tectonic lately, but if I’m honest, that’s part of the situation. There are still a ton of things that I want to do with the project, but I don’t have the energy or enthusiasm to fix issues that other users are facing the way that I used to.

I’ve been reluctant to add other maintainers in the past since I have very particular ideas about where I’d like to see the project go, and I felt that I was able to tackle everything I needed to do to get it there. While I still have a clear vision for what I would like to see in the project’s future, it doesn’t feel like I can do everything myself anymore, and it’s not fair to everyone else to bottleneck things on me. I still feel a little anxious about not micromanaging everything that goes on in the project, but with any luck I’ll soon be kicking myself for not taking this step sooner!