moving the project under new pencil organisation

[auvipy]

[hellocatfood]

Can you provide a detailed description of how this would work?

[bitzl]

A own pencil organisation sounds great, as it allows to have multiple maintainers (transparently). It makes it also easy to group multiple projects (e.g. one for pencil core, one dealing with FF integration, for the standalone-app, one for a pencil homepage via GitHub pages,...).

Moving is actually quite simple:

1. Create a new organization "pencil-project" (that's really still available :-))
2. Add descriptions, Logo etc.
3. (optional) Add more users to the organisation and define access rights
4. Move project "pencil" to the organization (there's a button at project settings)

Note that moving the project means that the repository URL changes:

From: https://github.com/prikhi/pencil.git To: https://github.com/pencil-project/pencil.git

[prikhi]

Moving is easy, coming up with fair decision-making, & membership processes are the hard parts.

[Mgldvd]

In fact when you transfer, the old URL still works and points to the new repository.

[mike-auto-mprt]

@prikhi ; actually the fair decision making and so on isn't that hard. You don't need it to begin with. Start with you being the owner of the project and make other contributors developers. See how who works together. Only at the stage when you have e.g. companies making large donations and they start to demand explanations of what you do with their millions do you really need to move to proper accountability and control. That will be a "nice problem to have" so don't worry about it :-)

Membership goes to those people who help you and work together with you for long enough that you come to trust them. Let people work through pull requests most of the time.

What might be nice is to have a relatively independent catchy name.