Proposal for Collaboration

[mjablecnik]

Dear @ookami-kb,

I hope this message finds you well. My name is Martin Jablečník, and I am a mobile application developer specializing in Flutter. Recently, I came across your project, storybook_flutter, which I found extremely useful and have been actively using.

While using it, I noticed some features that could be added or improved, so I decided to create a fork of the project, which I named storybook_toolkit. In this fork, I have added several new features and enhancements, such as:

• Improved UI design
• Added localization plugin
• Improved and fixed generating golden tests from stories
• Included other changes and bug fixes from other developers. For more details, you can look into the CHANGELOG.

I believe these enhancements could be beneficial for the broader Flutter community and I am going to maintain this project in the future.

When I mentioned these changes within the Flutter community, it was suggested that I reach out to you with a proposal for collaboration. I would like to ask if you would be open to joining forces and unifying our projects. I believe it would be highly beneficial if we could work together on a single project and thus avoid splitting our efforts.

Specifically, I would like to ask if you would consider accepting another maintainer for your project or not.

Best regards,

Martin Jablečník

[ookami-kb]

Hey Martin,

Thanks, I'm glad that the project was useful for you, and I see you did some impressive work on it.

In general, I'm all up for reducing entropy and limiting the amount of projects that do the same thing. In fact, during the latest FlutterconEU I was talking with widgetbook package maintainers – and that's yet another option to combine efforts with them, as I don't have much time recently to maintain my project, and they have a team working full-time on it (both free open-sourced and paid versions).

I haven't made a final decision yet, but there's a high chance that I will discontinue my project in favor of widgetbook. In that case, if you decide to continue working on storybook_toolkit, I'd be happy to add the notice to my repo for users to switch to either widgetbook or storybook_toolkit.

[mjablecnik]

Hello, thank you very much for your answer.
I understand that you don't have a lot of time and I am willing to continue your work. It doesn't matter if it will be a continuation of the development of storybook_flutter or its fork storybook_toolkit.

[TomaszCz]

@mjablecnik Hi! What is the status of https://github.com/FlutterPackages/storybook_toolkit_old i see it got archived and renamed to _old
Do you plan to continue the work done by @ookami-kb ?

I missed any announcement if there was any. Please let me know :)

[mjablecnik]

@TomaszCz Hello, yes work continue in this repo: https://github.com/StorybookToolkit/storybook_toolkit
Due to fork visibility I had to create a new project.
Now my project is visible in https://github.com/ookami-kb/storybook_flutter/forks on second position and I hope it will be more visible for people finding some alternative for storybook_flutter.