Move `mdformat` back into @hukkin's account

[choldgraf]

@hukkin requested that we move the mdformat package back into his GitHub account, here's the request:

I'd really like to see this happen (given I keep dictatorship over mdformat (it can be less draining than shared governance)), or alternatively transfer mdformat (and any plugins you wish to give up) back to my account. It worries me a bit that there is no response here in almost 2 years.

Mdformat was transferred here mostly because years ago Chris S. happened to ask and I couldn't see much of a downside. Having it under the same organization as the parser it uses seemed reasonable. I was never well aware (still today am not 😄 ) of this organization's structure, funding, governance, product, values, or anything really, except for the fact that Chris S. had ported markdown-it under this org which was useful to me.

I feel today, for my maintenance, this organization is mostly a burden, setting false expectations of governance and processes. A few times I've noticed I don't have the permissions to do what I wanted. I often feel unsure about my rights to manage other repositories besides mdformat, even if I have the commit bit. Often having a clear single owner would've made things simpler.

@choldgraf's take

I think it makes sense to move the mdformat project back out into @hukkin's account. It wasn't created as part of the grant, and he's the original and current maintainer.

I suggest that @rowanc1 @jstac or @gregcaporaso chime in if they have any thoughts or objections. If not, then I'll plan to move the repository in a few days.

Suggestion

If there are no objections, then after Monday the 25th we'll move the following repositories to @hukkin 's account:

https://github.com/executablebooks/mdformat
https://github.com/executablebooks/mdformat-tables

@chrisjsewell if you prefer mdformat-tables to go under your account, just let me know and I can move them there instead. Otherwise @hukkin I'd ask that you respect Chris' wishes if he wants them moved under his account and communicates that to you later on. I think it's best for the mdformat project if all the extensions are in the same space if @hukkin is interested in maintaining them.

Will anything break?

Are there any considerations we need to take in doing the actual moving? E.g., things that might break?

To do

• Decide if this is safe to do
  • Decided that yes it is
• Move the GitHUb repositories into @hukkin 's account
• Move the PyPI pages into @hukkin 's account
  • Blocked on the following issues:
    • Get control of the PyPI account for ebp-bot #1252
    • Account recovery request pypi/support#5347
    • Gain access to the ebp-bot email address (likely, executablebooks@gmail.com) #1251

[hukkin]

Thanks @choldgraf

I'll also gladly take any direct or indirect dependencies of mdformat-gfm, which out of EBP owned mdformat plugins seems to be only mdformat-tables. But @chrisjsewell is the author so I think that's for him to decide.

Regarding other EBP owned mdformat plugins, if there's someone to maintain them here (or elsewhere), that'd be great. If not (or I'm the expected maintainer), I'd rather have them transferred too.

[choldgraf]

yeah for all the mdformat stuff I'm +1 on moving that to your (or some other) org

[hukkin]

Friendly ping @choldgraf

In case you transfer mdformat-tables to me too, please also do so on PyPI (my username is the same as here).

I'd ask that you respect Chris' wishes if he wants them moved under his account and communicates that to you later on.

Of course!

[choldgraf]

I've moved mdformat to my account and initiated a transfer to @hukkin - can you accept? (apparently this is the only way to move an org repo like this).

I've done the same for mdformat-tables but I need @hukkin to delete your fork first so that I can transfer.

For PyPI it'll be a bit more time because I am temporarily locked out of my account. Perhaps @rowanc1 can do this part of the transfer if he has any cycles.

[hukkin]

Thanks @choldgraf, I've accepted mdformat and removed mdformat-tables fork.

[chrisjsewell]

@chrisjsewell if you prefer mdformat-tables to go under your account

yeh sure it's fine to go under @hukkin 's

It would be nice if one day #841 could be addressed, as @hukkin notes, this organisation now a burden for any development

[KyleKing]

Hi, I'm adding a +1 to this issue. There is some work on mdformat-tables to support TOML configuration, which would be nice to release, but currently blocked by the transfer of the PyPi package (hukkin/mdformat-tables#31)

[choldgraf]

I tried to do this a few weeks ago, and was blocked on these three issues that are linked together:

• Get control of the PyPI account for ebp-bot #1252
• Account recovery request pypi/support#5347
• Gain access to the ebp-bot email address (likely, executablebooks@gmail.com) #1251

Apologies that this is moving slowly but I have very little bandwidth to think about this right now. Things are pretty hectic in the USA open source world so it will likely be this way for the foreseeable future.

[hukkin]

Hi @choldgraf, I hope you're well!

It seems you may now have access to the ebp-bot PyPI account (if I interpret this correctyl: pypi/support#5347 (comment)). Would you be able to transfer mdformat-tables to hukkin on PyPI?

[choldgraf]

If I recall, I got bogged down trying to resolve this one:

• Gain access to the ebp-bot email address (likely, executablebooks@gmail.com) #1251

and ran out of time because I had to manually ask for access to the account, and it became more complex than I expected. So no I don't have access to ebp-bot yet. I can double check whenever I have a moment but am very bandwidth limited right now.

[hukkin]

The message I linked to (from PyPI support) says

I have updated the primary email address on the account.

So it seems like the gmail account may no longer be relevant here.

Thanks for helping out!