Looking for a new maintainer

[rcoedo]

I'm not having the time to properly maintain this repository anymore. If anyone with enough experience wants to take over I would be happy to hand over the baton 😃

@jscheid I've seen that you're doing a new prettier package for emacs, are you interested in becoming the new maintainer here?

@jlongster I'm mentioning you since this may interest you.

[jscheid]

Sorry but I'll pass. I'm planning to maintain the other package, but maintaining both seems a bit much (and somewhat redundant). Thanks for all your work on this one though.

[rcoedo]

Fair enough. Good luck with your package!

[jscheid]

Thanks @rcoedo, that's very kind.

One question, I'm thinking of pushing my package to MELPA some time soon. Do you (or anybody else) mind if I'm using the generic package name prettier? I don't want it to look more "official" than your package, at the same time it is a full interface to Prettier and nothing else. Slapping on some random suffix might give people the idea that it isn't -- and frankly, I'm having trouble coming up with another name. What do you think?

[rcoedo]

@jscheid This is really not my package. I only published it to MELPA and maintained it with minor bug fixes and merging other people's patches. The package is the official one from the prettier organisation that once lived in the main prettier repository.

I think it would be nice for the emacs package ecosystem to try to avoid the confusing situation that we have with the javascript packages, where we have a js-mode, js2-mode, js3-mode and nobody knows what to use.

If I were you I think I'd try to contact somebody from the prettier organisation. If this package is unmaintained but you commit to maintain yours it probably makes sense to officially point people out to your package instead. In this case you could even take the current prettier-js package name (we could write a migration guide).

If I find the time I'd be glad to help you with bug fixes or minor stuff 😄

[jscheid]

Thanks, yes that all makes sense, I'll try and reach out.

(I'm not keen to recycle the name prettier-js because it's misleading now that Prettier supports other languages. Also, my package uses a different license.)

[rcoedo]

Yes, you are right about that, with multiple language support prettier is probably a better name. If you get a response, please, let me know how it goes.

Cheers!

[jscheid]

@rcoedo it now got accepted on MELPA with package name prettier, which @jlongster thought was fine. Thanks again for all your work on this one.

[jcs090218]

@rcoedo Hi, does this repo still need a maintainer? I think I could afford some maintenance in my spare time. I wonder what would be the qualification to become a maintainer to this package? Thanks!

[david-alvarez-rosa]

Any updates on this? I do have some bandwidth and could help if needed :)

Is this package in path of deprecation, though?