Help maintaining htmlize

[yantar92]

Following up from https://list.orgmode.org/87il9hpx0b.fsf@localhost/T/#u
CC: @hniksic @tarsius

As discussed, let see how we can provide write access to the repo.

[tarsius]

@hniksic I believe you can now directly transfer to the emacsorphange "organization" (at the bottom of https://github.com/hniksic/emacs-htmlize/settings).

(In the past it was not possible to transfer directly to an organization that one is not a member of. People instead had to transfer to my personal account, tarsius, and I then transferred from there to emacsorphanage.)

If you do initiate a transfer, then please ping me here. In the past a transfer request, resulted in an email send to me, which expired in 24 hours or less. There was no notification in the web ui, so I sometimes missed it. Maybe they fixed that too, we will see.

@yantar92 I have just invited you to the emacsorphanage organization.

[yantar92]

Jonas Bernoulli ***@***.***> writes:

@yantar92 I have just invited you to the `emacsorphanage` organization.

Thanks! Joined.

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[tarsius]

welcome, @yantar92!

I've made you an "owner".

Please make your membership public. You can do that at https://github.com/orgs/emacsorphanage/people.

[yantar92]

Jonas Bernoulli ***@***.***> writes:

Please make your membership public. You can do that at https://github.com/orgs/emacsorphanage/people.

Done.

[hniksic]

@tarsius Sorry for taking long to respond. Where can I find out more about the emacsorphanage organization? Ideally I'd like to transfer ownership to a concrete person with a proven track record of maintaining Emacs packages. Failing that, I'd also be fine to transfer it to an organization with a good track record, such as the organization behind org-mode.

Maybe I'm misunderstanding it, but "emacsorphanage" doesn't sound like the most promising place for a package? (Ignoring for a moment that almost anything is preferable to the current situation where it's effectively unmaintained.)

[tarsius]

Maybe I'm misunderstanding it, but "emacsorphanage" doesn't sound like the most promising place for a package? (Ignoring for a moment that almost anything is preferable to the current situation where it's effectively unmaintained.)

That's intentional. The name reflects that it would of course be better to find new foster parents, but that taking care of the orphaned packages in some fashion is at least better than neglecting them.

@tarsius Sorry for taking long to respond. Where can I find out more about the emacsorphanage organization?

(@yantar92 elsewhere you asked whether users could help me collect and rework existing documentation about how the emacsorphanage works. I think this is only possible in a very limited fashion. I will have to do the work, but I am overloaded, so this will likely happen in steps.)

(In that spirit, let me mention https://emacsmirror.net/stats/emacsorphanage.html, which lists all the packages in the orphanage, and provides at least some information about why they were moved there.)

Ideally I'd like to transfer ownership to a concrete person with a proven track record of maintaining Emacs packages.

That's the ideal outcome, but if nobody volunteers and/or the current maintainer is generally open to the idea of handing the package over to somebody else (but is likely to be unavailable once a volunteer does show up), then the orphanage is a good intermediate step).

Nowadays, this is the primary reason for adding to the orphanage, and I think it would be the appropriate step for your package. That of course assumes you trust us to properly vet potential future volunteers.

Failing that, I'd also be fine to transfer it to an organization with a good track record, such as the organization behind org-mode.

Check out the people behind the orphanage, we all have a track record, going back many years, of being active and responsible stewards of some of the most popular packages and important infrastructure the emacs community relies on. @yantar92 and @bzg for example maintains Org-Mode, and since htmlize is (optionally) used by Org-Mode, they would most likely the ones looking after this package.