📢 Meshtastic Rust needs a new platform owner / maintainer 📢

[rcarteraz]

There are many missing features and other quality of life issues that need to be addressed. This repo has been without a dedicated maintainer for a while now and is in danger of soon becoming deprecated.

Please respond to this issue if you are interested in taking on this role or helping out in some specific way.

[lukipuki]

I've got maintainer rights from @ajmcquilkin a while ago, the last few PRs were merged by me: https://github.com/meshtastic/rust/pulls?q=is%3Apr+is%3Aclosed

Though the need for this crate in my own project is low, so I'm not dedicating as much time to it as would be ideal. A second (or third) maintainer would be great.

[krant]

I'd be happy to help. What are the major issues with the repo now? Besides new release overdue I'm not seeing what is missing, but may be my use case is small.

[lukipuki]

@krant there's the BLE support which a lot of people asked for, I have a WIP branch that I'd like to merge in about a month.

Also I'm not sure if work is needed to support encrypted messages.

And you can always improve code ergonomics, e.g. many people struggled with PacketRouter.

These are just a few things that multiple people asked in Discord from the top of my head.

[rcarteraz]

I've got maintainer rights from @ajmcquilkin a while ago, the last few PRs were merged by me: https://github.com/meshtastic/rust/pulls?q=is%3Apr+is%3Aclosed

Though the need for this crate in my own project is low, so I'm not dedicating as much time to it as would be ideal. A second (or third) maintainer would be great.

We can work on getting Crates access. We really need someone to own this and keep it current, that's really what we're looking for, otherwise we'll have to shift focus elsewhere.

[krant]

Full featured Rust CLI on a par with the python one could be something that could attract more users (no need to install Python and dependencies). I can take it if there is a desire.

[rcarteraz]

Full featured Rust CLI on a par with the python one could be something that could attract more users (no need to install Python and dependencies). I can take it if there is a desire.

We'd be 100% supportive of this idea!

[krant]

Awesome, I'll prepare a PR with a bare bones implementation and we can decide where to go from there.

[ralphtheninja]

👋 I was thinking about implementing a crate for meshtastic and obviously there was one already! This is great news. I'd be happy to dive in as well.

Full featured Rust CLI on a par with the python one could be something that could attract more users (no need to install Python and dependencies). I can take it if there is a desire.

This would be awesome.