Hi everyone who watches urllib3 issues. 👋

As you may recall from #909, @Lukasa has been the lead maintainer of urllib3 for the past year and a half. I am very grateful for Cory's commitment of time and effort, he has done an excellent job pushing urllib3 forward. As employment arrangements change and life marches on, Cory informed me that it's time for a new lead maintainer to take the torch.

New maintainer

@haikuginger will be taking responsibility as the lead maintainer and thus the direction of urllib3 moving forward.

As before, our family of contributors and secondary maintainers will continue to support our new leader as needed.

Logistics

This is our second transition, so let's make a checklist of everything that needs to happen for this to be officially complete:

• Announcement
• Update README
  • @haikuginger's entry in the maintainers' list should include a note that his time is sponsored by Akamai and/or Akamai should be added to the Sponsors list
• Github admin
• PyPI admin
• ReadTheDocs admin
• TravisCI?
• AppVeyor?
• Release process documentation?

Anything else? (Maintainers, please edit the checklist above and check it off as it's completed.)

If anyone has questions or concerns, comments here are welcome or email me. ❤️