Hi deployd community,
tl;dr Deployd has a new team of maintainers, new release of Deployd, contributions more than welcome.
My name is Nicolas Ritouet, I'm a new member of the deployd team. I met Jeffrey Cross at a conference a few months ago, told him that I was a big fan of Deployd and how sad I was to see the project dying (as lot's of you probably). We discussed and I proposed my help to keep maintaining the project.
I joined the deployd team and started to work on the many Pull Requests that were waiting for a while. Eric Fong joined me quickly and he sent lot's a PR to fix issues and add cool features (integration to Express). He also rewrote dpd-s3 and updated dpd-email.
We merged more than 50 PR, mostly fixes, dependency updates and some new features. Our goal was to clean the old dependencies, fix the most important bugs and add some long awaited features.
Due to their respective work, Jeffrey, Ritchie and Dallon stepped away from the project. At least, they can't spend as much time as they did before. What it means for us is that the community is now in charge of Deployd. We'll publish a roadmap soon and we'll discuss about this with you to make sure that we prioritize the right features.
Of course, it also means that the project now only rely on contributions from the community. We need help in different area, it can be:
- create an issue when you find a bug (including how to reproduce it, versions you use, etc...)
- improve the documentation (outdated content, new features not documented, UI, etc...)
- improve the website (move to Jekyll, UI, typos, etc...)
- improve the error messages
- comment the issues if you think they're important
- come chat on gitter to help others, discuss about bugs, documentation improvement or features you'd like (https://gitter.im/deployd/deployd)
- send a pull request to fix an issue
- send a PR to add a feature
We have a label to find the issues which needs a PR (http://git.io/bdgQ).
If you're new to PR, drop in for a chat (https://gitter.im/deployd/deployd), we'll be happy to guide you.
This new release could not have been possible without Eric (https://github.com/ericfong), Andrei (https://github.com/andreialecu), SimpleTechs (https://github.com/simpleTechs) and all the other contributors (https://github.com/deployd/deployd/graphs/contributors). Thanks a lot to them.
For the 0.8 release, we updated all the dependencies, we stabilized the docs, we fixed more than 50 bugs, we added the integration with Express, we improved the error message with MongoDB, we added promises on the server-side, we added support for Grunt/Gulp, we updated the windows installer [0] and lot's more...
We have a bad news though: we couldn't update the macosx binary since we lost the script to build it. If somebody wants to contribute to this, feel free to contact us. The best solution to install Deployd on macsox is to install it globally with npm (npm install deployd -g) and Mongodb (with brew install mongodb for example).
The changelog is available here.
If you want to discuss about the future of Deployd, come on gitter: https://gitter.im/deployd/deployd
I want to take the opportunity to thank the core developers, Jeffrey Cross, Ritchie and Dallon for their impressive work on Deployd and for trusting us with raising their baby.
Let me repeat that: Deployd is not dead, I'll make sure we keep our priorities straight: having a production-ready tool to easily create APIs.
Enjoy this new release, The Deployd team.
[0]: The update command on the older version is broken, please uninstall and reinstall the new version.
Great!