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Open XVilka opened this issue 6 years ago • 15 comments

What about moving the repo under the neovim namespace? It is an organization, so you will retain the same access, while increasing the repository visibility. They host libraries/clients for another languages as well: https://github.com/neovim/

It will help to improve testing as well.

XVilka avatar Aug 27 '19 07:08 XVilka

Ok how can i do this?

daa84 avatar Aug 28 '19 16:08 daa84

FYI @justinmk @blueyed @mhinz @bfredl @vhakulinen

XVilka avatar Aug 29 '19 05:08 XVilka

Pro: Might increase visibility.

Contra: I could imagine that people consider repos within the neovim organization to be "official" and expect core members to work at it. So, when daa84 should ever stop contributing, we're left with a dead repo.

Then again, we're already the home of other providers that don't see much activity, so... yeah, I'm mostly in favor of it.

mhinz avatar Aug 29 '19 11:08 mhinz

Certainly we're in favor of this if @daa84 , @vhakulinen and any others using the library want to work together on it. @daa84 would have "admin" access and then manage it as needed.

how can i do this?

Using GitHub "transfer" feature to transfer to the "neovim" organization. https://help.github.com/en/articles/transferring-a-repository

Is it too late to change the library name? It is better for users if Nvim clients don't have the name "neovim" or "neovim lib" because this is too generic and makes documentation and discussions more verbose. E.g. an unambiguous identifier like nvimrust is better than "neovim-lib, the Nvim rust client". It also makes searching for documentation and discussions easier. See also :help dev-api-client.

we're already the home of other providers that don't see much activity,

We want to avoid that, and will retire anything that gets abandoned.

justinmk avatar Aug 29 '19 14:08 justinmk

@daa84 so, what have you decided?

XVilka avatar Sep 13 '19 07:09 XVilka

Ok, I can transfer it to neovim organization. Lately i don't have much time on develop this library, only some basic support. Is it ok? Currently neovim-lib also registered on creates.io with same name, so not sure about renaming.

daa84 avatar Sep 16 '19 21:09 daa84

Are you ok with others taking the lead on it then? @vhakulinen do you have interest in maintaining this ?

justinmk avatar Sep 16 '19 21:09 justinmk

@vhakulinen do you have interest in maintaining this ?

I would, as part of gnvim development. My time is limited but I'll do what I can.

What would happen to the neovim-lib crates package? I guess that should move under neovim's (the organization) ownership then?

vhakulinen avatar Sep 17 '19 16:09 vhakulinen

I can help maintaining too. ;)

h-michael avatar Sep 17 '19 16:09 h-michael

I'd be interested in working on this as well.

KillTheMule avatar Sep 18 '19 06:09 KillTheMule

So, what was decided? @daa84

XVilka avatar Oct 14 '19 04:10 XVilka

I haven't seen a transfer request.

justinmk avatar Oct 17 '19 06:10 justinmk

@daa84 I noticed there was some activity recently, could you please check this issue again?

XVilka avatar Dec 09 '19 10:12 XVilka

@daa84 so what you have decided?

XVilka avatar Jan 13 '20 05:01 XVilka

I mean this is Open Source so as @daa84 expressed interest but for some reason wasn't able to transfer this library it would be possible to create a fork, right? As long as there are people willing to administrate that.

ModProg avatar May 14 '22 19:05 ModProg