NPM maintainers?

[rreusser]

Is it necessary or even possible to establish some sort of npm organization in order to prevent orphaned modules? I see this: https://docs.npmjs.com/cli/owner but that sounds like we'd have to manually add a couple maintainers for every module, which would be a pain unless done programatically. Just trying to figure out how to avoid a bad situation.

[rreusser]

Of course it may be possible for someone else with repo access to just publish a new version, but I'm not 100% sure.

[Planeshifter]

npm owner add is not so bad. I do not think npm has organizations or anything like that (yet).

[kgryte]

Repo access is not enough. You do have to be made an owner of an NPM module. One way to automate the process is via git hooks or some other build process.

I have started working on some modules to help us with these type of issues. When we have something more formalized, I will be sure to share.

[rreusser]

Cool. Then just go with the flow if I just go ahead and add someone. 😄 I'm at a point in life where I'm really sick of wasting time on ill-fated projects of one sort or another.

[rreusser]

Added @Planeshifter + @mikolalysenko to a bunch of stuff. Nothing personal, @kgryte! Don't hesitate to ask if you want to contributing to anything for which I have permissions. Just a redundancy check until a better solution is found.

[kgryte]

+1 :)

[mikolalysenko]

Yeah, I need to be more diligent about this, but it is hard to stay on top of with the npm interface. I think @hughsk had a script which automated some of this? Anyway as a temporary measure I'll start adding some maintainers manually.

[hughsk]

https://github.com/repo-utils/npm-org-rights does wonders :)

[hughsk]

Oh, important to note that you need iojs or node --harmony for that. I generally switch over with nvm and then use node --harmony $(which npm-org-rights).

[rreusser]

Awesome, thanks! Yeah, just trying hard to push some of this tedious organizational stuff forward. I'll see if I can set that up.

[mikolalysenko]

Ok! It is done. I added all you guys to scijs using npm-org-rights. You all should do the same!

[mikolalysenko]

The syntax for that command is:

npm-org-rights scijs rreusser
npm-org-rights scijs planeshifter
npm-org-rights scijs mikolalysenko
npm-org-rights scijs jaspervdg
npm-org-rights scijs hughsk