StatsPlots is looking for a new maintainer

[BeastyBlacksmith]

Since the current active maintainers of Plots.jl have little expertise in the specifics of statistical plotting, but do think StatsPlots is a fine package that should continue to grow, we would be happy to find a dedicated maintainer for StatsPlots.jl
This doesn't mean you are alone: we'll help where we can.

There are a bunch of good looking PRs open and I am going to ping the authors of those to see if they are interested
@BioTurboNick @sethaxen @MattAmos @devmotion

[sethaxen]

I'm happy to help out with maintaining StatsPlots. Are there any good issues to read for the philosophy of the scope of StatsPlots, or has it been somewhat organic?

[BeastyBlacksmith]

Great, I'll send you an invite.
StatsPlots was created since it allows for creating recipes with heavier dependencies, without increasing the load time for everyone. Since then it grew pretty organically by the people who use it.

[BioTurboNick]

I appreciate it but don't think I can take it on. Not nearly versed enough in the internals of Plots.

[mkborregaard]

Really awesome @sethaxen
It has been very organic - it started as a way to avoid DataFrames as a dep back when that was huge, and now the purpose is essentially completely ortoghonal. The last formulation of a philosophy I think was when @piever and I agreed that it should provide plotting for all the packages that are imported by using StatsKit, to make it a companion package to that ecosystem. That's when the name changed to StatsPlots.

People might have other visions now, of course, and it would make sense for the new maintainer to be formulating it.

[sethaxen]

@BeastyBlacksmith it looks like I don't have sufficient privileges to register new releases (b99a4ff#commitcomment-53278763). Can you upgrade them?

[BeastyBlacksmith]

I can make public members private, but not private members public, you should be able to do that yourself though, no?

[sethaxen]

Ah, sure enough, I was able to do it myself. Sorry about that.

[storopoli]

@sethaxen I can help you to maintain it also. If you want to tag me to issues or to review PRs, count me in.

[sethaxen]

Thanks @storopoli!