Consider adding new org maintainers that would move things along a bit #3546
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Hey! I'm a long time user of this plugin, but I see in the general state of issues and PRs and comments in #3524 that this plugin is struggling a bit with maintenance. In other words this great piece of kit is starting to show some broken windows. I'd like to see it get some TLC.
Normally my pitch would be to migrate good old plugins whose maintainers have moved on to other endeavours to the Preservim org I founded about 10 years ago as safe place to house popular VIM plugins that needed ongoing maintenance but where the original owner's attention was elsewhere for whatever reason. We house many popular plugins like nerdcommenter, nerdtree, tagbar, vim-markdown, and many others. We've successfully recruited and mentored new maintainers for a number of plugins, and kept the wheels turning—in same cases adding features and expanding, but mostly just staving off bit-rot and keeping things compatible with the current field.
Given this plugin's dedicated Org and whole ecosystem of related plugins I'd actually just like to leave this one right here but ask that myself and maybe one or two other folks to be added as org owners so we can get the ball rolling a bit again before it is too late to save and changing plugins is the only viable way forward.
Personally I have an expensive background in FOSS and security and have access to many things many of which much more security sensitive than VIM plugins and I've worked with many projects where I've taken over maintenance or helped the projects transition into other maintainer. I can cite examples if this is a point of concern.
Once migrated, I would jump in to do some initial issue triage, but more importantly I would also like some org controls so I can help manage the team a bit and enable people that want to contribute and show a trusted history to get a bit more done. My proposition would be to configure such that 2 team member signoffs are required for a merge, then offer past active contributors or people with a track record of vim plugin contributions to join the team to help with issue triage and PR review. As I have done with other projects I'd watch that activity for and if there are any stand out contributors over a year or so that have consistently good contributions, I may invite them to have more privs on the repo and be able to approve PRs directly.
This sequence has played out nicely with many other VIM plugins I've worked on with new maintainers having taken up the mantle for tagbar and nerdtree, with others.
If you have any questions or concerns I'd be glad to address them. Again thanks for the great plugin, and I hope this offer is given consideration as a way to extend it's useful lifetime and avoid bitrot!