I would like to be there as well. I thought about contributing to the client for some time now and recently I wrote a bit in Java so it seems like a perfect time. Obviously I am too inexperienced to be a maintainer but I would like to start contributing a little bit.
Looking for New Client Maintainer
Not exactly a 'good-first-issue' feature but of those that would like to contribute - this would be a nice milestone to strive for:
A work of art is never finished, merely abandoned
@nuggets said in Looking for New Client Maintainer:
I hereby nominate ChatGpt
A simple ChatBot also does the trick. It just needs to comment each feature request with a "no" and each bug with "works as intended".
He said, "I've been to the year 3000
Not much has changed, but they live underwater
And your great-great-great-granddaughter
Is playin' FAF, playin' FAF"
For those interested I will be discussing the client architecture and structure in the FAF discord this Saturday June 29th at 18:00 UTC
Please do record it as I can't join but I'd love to view it.
A work of art is never finished, merely abandoned
For those who weren't able to join the recording can be found here https://youtu.be/j2LNWBdEiHU?feature=shared
Regarding the question at the end about development on a mac:
There is still the old mac-support branch that contained some changes to enable running the client on Mac:
https://github.com/FAForever/downlords-faf-client/compare/develop...feature/mac-support
However the client commit it is based on is massively out of date so you would have to check if these changes still apply/ are still needed and re-apply them to the current state of the client.