Hi everyone who watches urllib3 issues. 👋

As you may recall from #1290, @haikuginger has been the lead maintainer of urllib3 since December. I am very grateful for Jesse's commitment of time and effort. Jesse has left a strong positive mark on the project, and will continue to do so as time permits, but it's time for a new lead maintainer to carry on the torch.

New maintainer

@theacodes is taking responsibility as the lead maintainer and thus the direction of urllib3 moving forward.

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

Also, we're adding @SethMichaelLarson to our collection of co-maintainers. Seth will work with Thea to help keep the backlog of issues down and keep things moving forwarding.

Logistics

• Announcement: https://twitter.com/shazow/status/978299138361184256
• Update README
  • @theacodes' entry should be at the top of the list, can mention that her time is sponsored by Google.
  • @SethMichaelLarson should be added to the list as well (Seth: let us know if someone is sponsoring your work here)
  • Update Sponsors section.
• Github admin
• PyPI admin
• ReadTheDocs admin
• TravisCI? AppVeyor? (We didn't do these last time, are they needed?)
• Release process documentation? (Did this ever get written up? Some notes here, but we should make a wiki or .md file or something)
• Setup alerts:
  • Watch the urllib3 repo
  • Subscribe to urllib3 Stackoverflow tag (add email alerts or subscribe to RSS)
  • Join the python-urllib3 Gitter

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. ❤️