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No worries! Even though it's not October I'd still like to take it on, the site's been a great tool and I'd like to give back, even a little.

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I've been thinking about this some more. I think it would be nice to make this the canonical source of truth, and then update the request-new-language-track to have very little text, and link to this.

Here's some relevant stuff that I think should be included:

Ideally a track will have several maintainers. This makes the discussions more lively and interesting, and it makes the track more resilient to illnesses, job changes, new babies, and all the other excitement that real life^TM brings.

More Lively

We've noticed that as soon as there are at least two people maintaining
the same track we get rich discussions about quality and idioms. There's a lot
more activity, and it's a lot more fun.

Spread the Workload

We don't want to burn people out, and it's really nice to be able to
go on vacation or get busy at work without worrying too much about a growing
backlog of unanswered issues and unreviewed and unmerged pull requests.

Caveat

There's a small chance that when more people are involved there's a bit of
diffusion of responsibility (worth googling and reading about if you haven't
heard the term before).

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@mfernest this one's for you, if you want it!

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@kytrinyx this sounds meaty and interesting. Gimme gimme.

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Take it! 🌻

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@mfernest How are you getting on with this?

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It's been a month, I'm going to go ahead and make this one up for grabs again.

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Hi @kytrinyx ! Is this issue still really open/relevant? I'm trying to pick up issues for hacktoberfest and would love to get this done for y'all if it is.

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@donquxiote Oh shoot I missed this and now it's no longer October. I am so sorry about that!

❤️ 💛 💚 💙 💜 🖤

Basically... yeah, it's still relevant!

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I'd like to give back, even a little.

❤️ this is so much appreciated!

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@kytrinyx sorry about the radio silence, real life took made an appearance and I wasn't able to look at this for a while. I've made a PR with what I have so far here: #122

That being said, I do have a question, what do you want a new maintainer to do if they find a track that is not active, but want to maintain it? (is that even a possible case with how y'all organize the project?)

Once this documentation is what you want, I'll open PRs to remove it from the problem-specifications and from the request-new-language-track readme.

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@donquxiote I think we still have tracks that are not actively maintained. The best thing to do would be to open an issue in http://github.com/exercism/exercism/issues about it.

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