Looking for new owner(s)

[jakubpawlowicz]

Hello all,

It's been over 7 years since I started working on clean-css and it has become one of the most popular tools on npm. After spending countless hours on making it a useful tool to you all, I believe a new chapter is around a corner.

Please come forward if you'd like to actively support clean-css, either by writing new features, fixing bugs, or helping others to jump on board.

Speaking on my involvement I'd l like to stay with you until clean-css 5 is released and in the meanwhile gracefully pass the torch to whoever comes next.

So who's interested?
Jakub

[alexander-akait]

@jakubpawlowicz Maybe we can unite? I'm an active developer https://github.com/cssnano/cssnano.
In history, there are many examples of union libraries/tools/frameworks. I know it is a lot of work, but this would allow us to focus on one instrument and make it the best. We can create an approximate roadmap.

[glen-84]

FWIW, when using the OptimizeCssAssetsPlugin with webpack, with my medium-sized project, Clean CSS is much faster than CSS Nano.

Cold builds:

Clean CSS
Time: 99380ms
Time: 97079ms

CSS Nano
Time: 208936ms
Time: 212521ms

More than double (and these builds include Sass, TypeScript, image optimization, etc).

Unfortunately the Clean CSS integration in OptimizeCssAssetsPlugin is incomplete (see NMFR/optimize-css-assets-webpack-plugin#87), so I'm forced to use code like this for now.

[alexander-akait]

@glen-84 i am glad to speedup cssnano 👍 Feel free to investigate, also cssnano should compress better more things

[heyflo]

It would be awesome if you guys could unite to make a real contender to be the best out there. In my team we were using CleanCSS for years (with gulp) before moving to webpack and even though css nano is great, it isnt that fast & the compression is not better so it felt like a downgrade.

[alexander-akait]

@heyflo

compression is not better

better 😄

isnt that fast

yep we are working on this, last version increase speed around 2x-3x

Anyway i am glad to union, but @jakubpawlowicz don't give me answer and don't connect with me

[heyflo]

Thanks for the reply !
Sad he's not helping much but it's good that you guys realized some of the cssnano flows and are looking to improve it. Looking forward to it 👍

[Medvezo]

@jakubpawlowicz take a look at https://www.codeshelter.co/ They are a group of volunteers who offer a helping hand for open source projects. Log in with your Github account and add your project.

Saw them the other day on Hacker News: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19199647

[jakubpawlowicz]

After long deliberation I'll keep maintaining it for foreseeable future. Wish me luck!