A new community driven Chart.js?

[adrianandreias]

Would it make sense to create a community-driven Chart.js fork?
I see a lot of issues hanging and not much activity on this project.

I need two things that turn me away from using Chart.js. These are very basic features which I think make sense to be in the core:

• gracefully rendering negative values (see Bar Chart negative values #773, Add bar chart option to start bars at the origin, instead of the bottom. #669, fixed line chart with negative values #628, Fixed line charts animation with negative values #542, drawing from Zero to negative values #446 etc.)
• show x-axis labels only every N values (see Auto Rotate & Skip Labels based on "scaleXMaxHeight" #864, Skip labeling?  #614, Added showLabelInterval option #624, Line Chart - Data series without label for each point #12, Axis labels get cropped / trimmed #715)

@nnnick has done a nice job with Chart.js but he looks pretty busy right now.
I, my self, must admit that I don't have much hours to put into this project, but browsing through pull requests and issues looks like a number of people could contribute.

What do you all think?

[etimberg]

@adrianandreias Recently a number of collaborators have joined @nnnick in helping to maintain Chart.js. We've spent a fair bit of time so far working through the issue backlog and releasing a 1.0.1 milestone. That being said, there is a lot more work to do. We're hoping to get into a fairly regular release cycle but unfortunately it may take some time.

If you're interesting in helping out, please let myself, @nnnick, @tannerlinsley, @jakesyl, @fulldecent or @derekperkins know.

[fulldecent]

Duplicate issue, see #795 #356 #821 #833 #505 :-)

This project is definitely alive and is now more decentralized. This is evidenced by your expanded team of project "members" above.

In general our goal is to improve the release process so that we can develop in parallel rather than in series. To that end, we have a 1.1 milestone that is focused:

• https://github.com/nnnick/Chart.js/issues?q=is%3Aopen+is%3Aissue+label%3A%22Priority+feature%22+milestone%3A1.1

[jakesylvestre]

8257171 it would seem this project is fairly active, i've added a new clause to the COLLABORATING file to make it more clear how to become a collaborator