Next Steps for the Caddy Project Maintainership

Summary

tldr: I won’t personally see all comments/issues/PRs anymore; maintainer team is being granted tag+release privileges; community will be more involved with leadership; increase current bus factor of 1; unblock the project where I am the bottleneck; help the project scale better. Caddy is now about 11 years old, and the project has changed a lot over that time, and grown hugely popular! To shed some perspective… What it used to be like For years, my daily-ish routine involved checking my GitHub notifications – usually around 1-3 – triaging them and responding to each one of them personally. Most issues were obvious: bugs that needed urgent fixing, features that were a clear yes/no for the project, or questions that had easy answers. Even after the launch of v2, the project was still new and developing, most other people didn’t have a lot of experience with it, and my vision was clear, so it was pretty easy to answer questions, make decisions, review the trickle of pull requests, etc. I wrote most of the code and was familiar with it. My notification inbox essentially became my TODO list, and it was fairly easy to keep under 1 page (or about 25 notifications). At any given time, Caddy almost never had more than 100 open issues or 25 open PRs. Later, we set up a forum, which I’d check multiple times per day and reply to questions there. Usually about 1-3 posts per day. No problem keeping up with it all. I read every single topic for years, and answered many of them myself to help educate others and be aware of user experiences, etc. I tagged and published every single release. Sometimes multiple per day (oops). Over 100 now. How it changed over time As the project grew, the docs improved substantially via contributions. More nits and edge cases were covered. Examples were added (and more to come, I’m sure). Knowledge began to accumulate in the community, meaning that people could answer more questions by search results, and help others find answers to their questions, ...