Adding gatsby-source-s3 to the Gatsby monorepo

[robinmetral]

Hi people—

For the past two years, I've been maintaining a source plugin to pull images from AWS S3 buckets. It enables Gatsby to process images with sharp, while hosting images off of GitHub—useful for image-heavy sites and blogs that don't use a CMS.

Context

I didn't create the first ever gatsby-source-s3: the first one was made by DSchau, but it stopped being maintained long ago (last commit was in late 2019) and I created mine to fix existing issues with it. There's also jessestuart's gatsby-source-s3-image, which was written in TypeScript but also stopped being maintained a few years ago (last commit excluding automatic dep updates was in late 2019).

So my version of gatsby-source-s3 took aspects from these two unmaintained plugins and improved upon them.

Some key aspects:

• It supports pulling from multiple and/or private S3 buckets
• It's fully compatible with Gatsby v4 (recently updated)
• It has a nice e2e test suite (bootstraps a real Gatsby site pulling from real S3 buckets inside GitHub actions)
• TypeScript

👉 Find it on GitHub at robinmetral/gatsby-source-s3

Proposal

Now for the catch: I'm not using Gatsby very much any more, and I don't think I can keep up with future maintenance and potential updates for the plugin.

Which is why I'm wondering if we could consider moving the source plugin into the Gatsby monorepo, alongside other source packages.

This would have several benefits:

• ensure maintenance of the plugin in the future along with the framework
• encourage community contributions to the plugin (there were 3 contributors to the plugin so far)
• improve visibility for the plugin: people continue to install the other, unmaintained gatsby-source-s3 plugins, only to realize that they have bugs or doesn't work with their Gatsby version

Any thoughts here?

[LekoArts]

Hi!

We won't be adding more packages to our monorepo (we rather try to minimize the count) but we'll be working on properly highlighting, supporting and incorporating https://github.com/gatsby-uc/plugins into the community & governance. tl;dr this is the place where I'd propose you put your plugin :)

[robinmetral]

Oh nice, this looks exactly like the home I was looking for for this plugin 🎉 Thanks for sharing! I'll bring the discussion over to that repo