Future of Watson: Community Collaboration?

[dGilli]

Hello everyone,

I've noticed there hasn't been any active development on Watson in a year, with v2 features hanging in the pipeline. Some of the planned features, like adding notes to time entries, could be game-changers for many of us.

It seems TailorDev no longer exists.

To the Maintainer(s):
Is there a possibility to give the community access or even transfer ownership, so we can take this project further?

I want to clarify that I have no intention of overtaking the project myself. I'm merely opening up this discussion as a potential entry point for the community to engage and possibly collaborate on the development to keep the project alive.

To the Community:
Would anyone else be interested in contributing if the project were opened up? Your thoughts and willingness to participate would be great to hear! Please comment.

I love what this tool has provided so far, and I believe some specific features while keeping it as simple as possible could add a lot of value.

[MaxG87]

I too would love to see this project being revived. I am not a power user, but even my simple use cases suffers some bugs. I certainly would contribute patches, but I am not sure if I could find the time to be a core maintainer.

[joelostblom]

I would love to see Watson remain an actively maintained project. There is a lot of fantastic work that has gone into it and to me it is the most convenient tool to keep track of time by a wide margin. I'm personally capable of contributing occasional patches, but not being a core dev.

@jmaupetit and @k4nar What are your thoughts on what the future of Watson looks like?

[k4nar]

I personally don't use Watson anymore, hence my lack of motivation to keep maintaining it 😅 . I would be happy to see other people taking the lead 👍 .

[sandro-meier]

The watson feature set is quite complete. So I'm not sure we need a set of core devs to further build it out. Maybe a couple people maintinaing it and organizing issues and PRs is already good enough.

[nv1t]

I don't think it needs a core dev either, but i don't think it is feature complete
Having somebody managing PRs and Maintaining the project would be nice, as there are PRs dangling for ever now.

I would love to help to maintain it, as i really use it productively.

[mdtrooper]

Well, this thread is one month more or less. What are the next steps?

• is it create a free organization into github?
• is it set members in these organization?
• is it copy the git repo?
• is it posible move the issues and pull request in this github repo to another github repo?

[k4nar]

I can reach @jmaupetit if someone wants to be added as a owner of the project. But maybe the first step would be for this person(s) to go through the open PRs & issues, and see what we can merge?

[uwe-schwarz]

I'm using this project quite extensively and would like to contribute. I would be willing to go through PRs and issues.
OTOH I must admit that I'm not a good coder, I mainly write some small scripts and use them all over the place. Therefore I can provide support and test PRs, merge them and make sure they are tested and work, but I wont write anything really new.

[s-frick]

I recently started using this project. I love it because of its simplicity. I'm not a python developer, but I have enough experience with many other languages that I should be able to pick it up quickly. I would be willing to maintain the project. @k4nar so feel free to have @jmaupetit add me as an owner if that's okay with you guys.

[jmaupetit]

As I've already told to some of you, and some others that contacted me directly, I've no time to maintain this project anymore. Even if I use it on a daily basis 😅

I propose to move it to the @jazzband organization and leave it to the community. Hope you'll all be ok with this.

❤️

[mdtrooper]

As I've already told to some of you, and some others that contacted me directly, I've no time to maintain this project anymore. Even if I use it on a daily basis 😅

I propose to move it to the @jazzband organization and leave it to the community. Hope you'll all be ok with this.

❤️

I didn't know this community, but I am reading about they and they are awesome (I am in another similar community but it is about abandoned floss games) .

I vote +1 .

One technical question: Can you move all "github things" (issues, pull request...) of this repo to jazzband?

[jmaupetit]

One technical question: Can you move all "github things" (issues, pull request...) of this repo to jazzband?

Looks like it is 👉 https://docs.github.com/en/repositories/creating-and-managing-repositories/transferring-a-repository#whats-transferred-with-a-repository

[timokau]

That sounds good, thank you for putting time into the handoff @jmaupetit!

One thing is not quite clear to me though: Are there any access controls in jazzband? If yes, how does that work? If not, does that mean that all 1000+ members would have commit access to watson?

[s-frick]

I very much welcome your suggestion. Organizations like @jazzband and their work are absolutely important. But I'm not quite sure if this is the right place for this project in particular. When I look at the repos, there are 90% django related libs. Watson is a cli tool that is useful to a wider audience regardless of the technological context and doesn't have much to do with python web frameworks.
I think there are a few people here who could collaboratively maintain watson and that would be the preferred solution for me personally.

But whatever you decide thank you for your efforts and the time you invest to keep this going.

[b12f]

I agree that the @jazzband org seems a bit more python infrastructury-oriented, and creating a separate org might be best. It's hard to figure out who might be good and trustworthy new stewards though, so I understand the idea of just moving it into the hands of an established community, where development can be restarted. It can then still be decided to spin the project off into a separate org.

👍 for moving it into @jazzband, unless the current maintainers think they can find a group of like 3 peeps they trust that would manage an extra org.

[imhosseinzadeh]

I hope the development of this project will start again. I recently looked for a time logger and found Watson. there isn't any reliable alternative (CLI or GUI).

[lwjohnst86]

What's the status of this move to @jazzband? I'd love to see this continue too, it's the best time tracker that I've found (at least for my purposes).

[austinorth]

Just chiming in to say I love this tool for my own personal use. My company doesn't require any sort of time tracking, but I still use it to kind of reflect on my day and stuff. I think @b12f has a good point here. If @jazzband is down to host the repo for now, the community can always spin out to another organization at later date. 🤷🏻 @jmaupetit if you need someone to champion the migration over and such, I'd be down to join their matrix chat and get the ball rolling.