Contributing upstream?

Question

Contributing upstream?

BigBlueHat opened this issue 10 years ago · 22 comments

First, thanks for developing this plugin!

Second, Hypothesis would like to continue work on this project, and use your existing foundation as a base. For us to do that well, I wanted to ask if you could do two things:

would you be open to moving ownership of this plugin to the hypothesis org here at GitHub?
would you (relatedly) be open to licensing it under the BSD?

You're also welcome to sign our Contributors License Agreement, but I'm not sure that's necessary in this case.

Thanks, @timmmmyboy!

Also, @dwhly says "hi" 😄

Answer 1 · 2014-11-12T20:04:30.000Z

Absolutely to both! I threw this together when the project was still at an Alpha stage and it's extremely basic (literally just throwing a javascript call into the head of the theme). Happy to have you all develop it further and I think it makes sense for you all to own it. Let me know what wordpress.org account you want me to associate with the plugin in their repository.

Answer 2 · 2014-11-12T20:07:41.000Z

Actually come to think of it since this is a WordPress plugin I believe it needs to be GPLv2. Any issues with that?

Answer 3 · 2014-11-12T20:20:12.000Z

@timmmmyboy yeah...I wondered about that. If that's our only option, let's pick that one. 😉

Apparently there's a hypothesis account already:
https://profiles.wordpress.org/hypothesis/

Do you have those keys?

Answer 4 · 2014-11-13T02:03:14.000Z

Nope, I used my own WordPress account (timmmmyboy) to manage the plugin administration.

Answer 5 · 2014-11-13T02:08:27.000Z

Apparently transfer to an organization isn't possible without me being an admin with the organization so I'm moving ownership to you and then you can transfer it into the org account.

Answer 6 · 2015-02-14T21:43:43.000Z

Checking back in on this it looks like the transfer to you is still pending. Are you all still interested in assuming ownership of the plugin? If so you can accept the transfer of the repo and then transfer it to your org. Also need a Wordpress.org account that you all would like to use to make you author in the plugin repository.

Answer 7 · 2015-02-19T13:51:51.000Z

@timmmmyboy very strange... Can you try the transfer again?

Use BigBlueHat for the WordPress.org account also. I'm trying to figure out if we "own" the hypothesis account there or not... Password reminders are going...somewhere...

Answer 8 · 2015-02-20T04:36:37.000Z

Aborted it and restarted and it says pending. BigBlueHat is now added as a committer to the WP plugin though so that should work (may be other options to enable more "ownership" there but that should at least allow you full access to update the plugin without any work on my end).

Answer 9 · 2015-02-23T18:39:22.000Z

k. Looks like I'm in on WordPress.org. No idea on the transfer request. @tilgovi may be able to help here.

If that still doesn't work, perhaps you can transfer it to me personally, and I can try to transfer it to the Hypothesis org.

We'll get it sorted! 😃 Thanks.

Answer 10 · 2015-02-24T00:38:09.000Z

@BigBlueHat reading the backlog here I was pretty sure it was getting transfered to you personally. However, maybe it makes more sense to transfer it to me, since I can transfer it to the org account.

Answer 11 · 2015-02-24T01:14:54.000Z

Yeah, I was indeed trying to transfer it to your account @BigBlueHat but I just tried @tilgovi as well. As long as someone who is a part of the Hypothesis org owns it they can transfer it in there.

Answer 12 · 2015-02-24T02:18:51.000Z

Transfered. https://github.com/hypothesis/wp-hypothesis

Answer 13 · 2015-02-24T02:20:21.000Z

Here's some info on license: http://codex.wordpress.org/Writing_a_Plugin#License
So, BSD is fine.

Answer 14 · 2015-02-24T03:36:42.000Z

Awesome! Thanks for getting that all figured out! (and good to know about BSD being compatible with WP)

Answer 15 · 2015-02-24T12:55:16.000Z

Great work @tilgovi! @timmmmyboy any objections to us using BSD for this?

Pretty sure you're OK with it but it's best to have stuff like this stated in writing. 😺

Answer 16 · 2015-02-24T13:14:19.000Z

Yes please feel free to adjust the license to BSD :)

Answer 17 · 2015-03-30T16:50:49.000Z

Thanks again @timmmmyboy 😄

Answer 18 · 2015-03-30T16:57:56.000Z

Quite welcome!

Answer 19 · 2022-05-13T14:29:36.000Z

@timmmmyboy Hey! Long time. Can you ping me at dwhaley@ hypothes.is? We'd like to work to get the WP plugin recertified and back in action. I think you're the current owner of the WP acct? cc @mkdir-washington-edu

Answer 20 · 2022-05-13T15:15:50.000Z

@dwhly I thought the work on this thread had resolved that but let me know who else I need to add and I can look into it. When I go to https://wordpress.org/plugins/hypothesis/#description I see several folks there who have updated it in the past but there's probably a way to add more contributors.

Answer 21 · 2022-05-13T15:37:35.000Z

@timmmmyboy If you could add me as a contributor on the project I can get other folks added as needed.

Our request isn't specific to this thread. There's a somewhat-recent message on the plugin page saying "This plugin has been closed as of January 28, 2022 and is not available for download. Reason: Guideline Violation." and we didn't know how else to get in touch with the folks on the project in order to assist.

Sorry to hijack a closed thread.

Answer 22 · 2022-05-13T18:24:03.000Z

Hi all, could you remove me from the plugin team on WordPress.org? Thanks.