I noticed that the joystick drivers repository has not had any recent changes and there are several open pull requests which have not been addressed by the maintainers. Has this package been replaced or is it abandoned?
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Looking at the commit history the last two contributors have moved on from their roles and may not have a much time for open source contribution.
If you are interested in becoming the maintainer of that package I can help facilitate making that happen.
I’m currently a university student and have very little experience in the open source community. I’m interested in becoming a maintainer but am a little doubtful in my abilities. Do you know where I could find some resources about what is expected of me as a maintainer before I make any commitments?
I could also step in and help maintaining the packages. However, similarly, I’ve only maintained one, very low-key, ROS 1 core package so far…
I guess the least we could do is review the outstanding PRs and merge them if they’re okay. However, I’m not sure in this strongly HW-dependent stack, how should we handle PRs to HW we don’t own.