Rename project from mdast to remark 🎉

[wooorm]

I just received push-access to the remark project on npm (by the amazing @phated!), which means, the mdast project can step away from the hard-to-pronaunce name towards a much more easily pronounceable remark.

I long coveted this name (in lieu of retext), ever since I forked into mdast more than a year ago.

Just in time for 3.0.0, but it will mean everything needs to be renamed, from mdastrc and mdastignore files, to all prefixed plug-ins.

This will also give me the opportunity to separate the AST specification from the API and CLI: mdast, similarly to NLCST for retext, will still be used as a definition for the nodes used by mdast, uhm, I mean, remark.

[wooorm]

Heads up: @ben-eb, @hughsk, @rsystem-se, @eush77, @anandthakker, @minodisk, @rhysd, @dthree, @zotplus, @tmcw, @chcokr, @denysdovhan.

[why-jay]

Congrats! Nice name.

[ben-eb]

Nice! What do you suggest for plugin renaming?

[wooorm]

Thanks @chcokr, @ben-eb.

• I suggest upping a new major release, released with the new name. In the case of mdast-midas@1.1.0, that would go to remark-midas@2.0.0.
• Then, create a near-empty project with a README pointing to to remark-midas and a deprecation notice, and publish it at mdast-midas@2.0.0 (yes, a major bump too).
• Use npm deprecate mdast-midas@2.0.0 'Renamed to remark-midas without API changes'

That would ensure no users get any deprecation notices normally, but if they are in the process of updating their dependencies, they’ll get one and hopefully rename their dependency. 😄

I know it’s quite a lot to ask, hope you all don’t mind. Furthermore, I hope the new naming will make the ecosystem better! 🎉

[eush77]

This will also give me the opportunity to separate the AST specification from the API and CLI: mdast, similarly to NLCST for retext, will still be used as a definition for the nodes used by mdast

Does it mean that the preferred name prefix for util packages will be changed to just mdast- after rename? And for example mdast-util-to-string will be renamed to mdast-to-string to be more in line with nlcst-to-string? I guess that could result in some confusion during the transition period.

[denysdovhan]

My congratulations! Cool name!

BTW: If you know there is also a remark slideshow tool 😏

[dthree]

👍

[wooorm]

@dthree @denysdovhan Yes, thanks! Cool right? And yeah, I saw the project. Luckily I got the access to npm 👍

@eush77 Yes, that’s the gist of it (see my previous comments for more info). I definitely share your concerns, but I feel that the long run will certainly be worth it. And, importantly, better now than later 👌

[rhysd]

Congrats! I got it.