Tell HN: GitHub should suggest that popular projects switch to an organization

2 points by jqueryin 10y ago ↗ HN

Popular unmaintained projects on Github are a real problem. There's really no solution other than disgruntled users creating a series of unrelated forks.

I believe Github could easily track the number of open issues, closed issues, and number of stars to determine if a popular project is no longer being actively maintained or attended to.

In the event a project is no longer being maintained, Github should recommend that the admin switch the repo to a free organization account and add some of the top contributors to the team.

I believe it could lead to higher quality (and better maintained) repos. The net benefit being the entire programming community wins.

Anyone have thoughts on how a flow like this could be implemented?

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ratfacemcgee 10y ago ↗

>if a popular project is no longer being actively maintained or attended to

>the admin switch the repo to a free organization account and add some of the top contributors to the team

if the admin of a project doesn't care enough to maintain their project, what makes you think that they would bother adding users to an organisation?