We can't make a proper organisation because the name git-bug is already taken on Github

[MichaelMure]

Hello @git-bug

This is an attempt to contact you as you don't have any other way of contact on your Github profile.

As you can see in this repository, git-bug is a distributed bug tracker embedded in git. It is now relatively popular and I would like to promote it to a real Github organization to grow a community and regroup the various related repository.

The obvious git-bug name is taken by your account that you haven't used in years now. Would you consider releasing this name? That would be very nice of you. It's not much but I can send you some stickers of this project in exchange.

Could you contact me at batolettre@gmail.com ?

[tbm]

Inactive accounts are against GitHub policy. I've had success in the past asking GitHub to release (i.e. remove) an inactive account.

[MichaelMure]

I tried that already without success. I suppose it's because this account actually had an activity (2 issues years ago).

[sudoforge]

Just to note, there's no activity that you can see. For all we know, the user makes 100 commits a day -- if all of the activity is private, the activity panel will look empty.

[MichaelMure]

I made https://github.com/git-bug-project but there is actually no way to accept github sponsors as an org, which limit quite a lot the usefulness it.

[sudoforge]

The Sponsors feature is GA for organization in the following regions: https://github.com/sponsors#regions

[xloem]

@MichaelMure The @git-bug organisation is available to register now.

[MichaelMure]

@xloem thanks for the heads up ! https://github.com/git-bug

[MichaelMure]

I'm quite curious how that happened.

[happybeing]

Great news!

@tbm @MichaelMure how did you request release of an inactive name? There's one I'd like because I use it in lots of places which has been inactive for several years.

[MichaelMure]

@theWebalyst you can ask the github support but don't get your hopes too high, they probably won't do it if there has been any activity on that account before.

[xloem]

I took the time to check, but I don't know how it happened.
I was guessing the owner released it after eventually noticing some communication from someone.

[6543]

https://github.com/contact/report-abuse?report=git-bug @MichaelMure ?

[MichaelMure]

I did that a while back but Github refused ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[happybeing]

I've submitted s report for another account which has been inactive for almost six years, let's see what happens.

[xloem]

Just clarifying that michaelmure @'d the account, which probably left an old email in the owner's inbox.

[happybeing]

Bingo, I'm now @happybeing on github as well as many other places (and have @theWebalyst to stop impersonations)!

I'm not sure what this breaks!

[sudoforge]

Are there plans to migrate the source of truth for this project to the @git-bug organization?

[MichaelMure]

@sudoforge eventually I suppose. The main goal would be to leverage github's donation system to help build a community of contributor. At the moment, https://opencollective.com/git-bug does that job but using github's one as well would probably help.

Note that I can't benefit myself from those donations as that would put me in a gray area regarding my current day job.

[zarelit]

[just triaging] This page now shows the git-bug logo and it is an organization so I guess this issue can be closed?

[6543]

who owns it?
https://github.com/orgs/git-bug/people

[sudoforge]

Membership visibility is set to Private by default when joining or creating an organization, however, the context provided by @MichaelMure's earlier reply indicates that they have the Owner role for the organization.

[MichaelMure]

Closing as I do have control of the git-bug github org, ready to be used when the time comes.

[sudoforge]

when the time comes

hey michael -- is there anything you're still waiting on before making this change?