Status update and next steps for "pkgjs/create" (create-pkg)

[mhdawson]

@rxmarbles with catch up with @wesleytodd to see if he can get up speed and then think about setting up a working session to move the coding forward.

[zackschuster]

i'm very interested in contributing to this effort, if at all possible 😄

[rxmarbles]

@zackschuster we'd be happy to have more help just setup some time w/ @wesleytodd and myself and we can do a sync.

@mhdawson an update on this. I met w/ Wes and we talked about the project and it's status we have some work to handle on the create-package-json that is a dependency of create-pkg I have a project boad setup and we just need to add some more work issues to address the reminaing items in the 1.x todo list

[mhdawson]

@rxmarbles thanks for the update.

[zackschuster]

@rxmarbles @wesleytodd shall we schedule time for the sync at tomorrow's meeting?

[jonchurch]

Caught up with wes today about this briefly. He hasn't had the time to keep up with current discussions in the repo so things haven't progressed.

In order to move forward it needs:

• People who understand the problem the project intends to address and can communicate it in simple terms (aka likely create some tickets to be worked on)
• Someone(s) who have the time and desire to work on it, make decisions, and push code
• Edit: Giving commit bits to contributors

I brought up finding some funding for the project to help someone(s) be able to dedicate time to it. Good candidates would be companies who have an interest in solving problems in the scaffolding landscape, most notably NPM could benefit from this project.

So classic issues of momentum and human hours being needed to kickstart the project, which could be addressed by someone taking charge and funding being provided. For those who would like to get involved, this existing issue lays out the motivation and imagined project structure.

[thescientist13]

Curious, is this intended to scaffold packages (thinking something like Yeoman) or just a package.json?

I know on the NPM Open RFC call someone was demoing work around for a CLI for managing and interacting with package.json and wasn't sure if there was overlap, or if this project had greater ambitions past just scaffolding a package manifest (package.json)?

[rxmarbles]

@jonchurch @thescientist13 I believe that was the key idea of using create-pkg would be used in NPM cli for helping scale up packages easier based on my last convo w/ @wesleytodd. I too agree that some of the issues of getting movment have to do w/ time and resources. I'm able to assist but mostly in free time as work has been taking a lot of my primary focus. Happy to help get momentum going though.