pylint-pytest plugin's repo has been made private

[nsp]

If you go to the pylint-pytest repo page now, it returns a 404. In my own github history, I see that my activity on the repo (opening and commenting on issues) is reported as a "contribution in private repositories"

I believe that this plugin, despite its flaws and lack of recent releases, is critical for users of both pylint and pytest. It's even recommended in the pylint documentation (example

Possible solutions I would support (in terms of participation and my own developer hours)

1. The plugin be incorporated into pylint itself
2. A fork of the repo be hosted by the PyCQA github org
3. A fork of the repo be hosted as a personal repo of mine but linked by the PyCQA docs

[Pierre-Sassoulas]

We pylint contributors and triagers might be responsible for this as we deferred all pylint's pytest related bugs on this repository which could have added too much pressure on the unwiling maintainer. I would favor to create a repository for each pylint plugin in an organisation. The organisation for that is to be determined as no current pylint maintainers is an admin in PyCQA. and I don't want to create more pylint related repo as long as #54 is not resolved.

[nsp]

OK, sounds good. In the meantime, I have a fork of the repo in my personal space: https://github.com/nsp/pylint-pytest

[DanielNoord]

Just to let you know, I have been working on an alternative over on https://github.com/DanielNoord/pylint-pytest-plugin. It takes a different approach than the other plugin so it's not a direct fork, but I intend to maintain it and any suggestions for fixes/feature requests are welcome.

[nsp]

@DanielNoord - Thanks! I'll check it out, and let you what false positives it misses, if any.

[Pierre-Sassoulas]

@reverbc sorry to ping you, and sorry for re-routing issues to your project without discussing it with you beforehand. What's your opinion about the future of pylint-pytest ?

[reverbc]

If anyone wants to contribute to the project as the main maintainer I'll do whatever that person wants, whether to reopen the project, move it to a different org, merge the capabilities into @DanielNoord's plugin or else. I have no preference or opinion for the future of the plugin.

[The-Compiler]

@reverbc Hey! 👋 One thing I'd suggest, if you don't mind, is to reinstate the project and archive it instead of deleting it or making it private. Archived projects are still visible but read-only, so no new issues/PRs can be opened anymore, and GitHub shows a banner clarifying that this is an archived project.

That way, people will still have a read-only copy of the code available (without needing to hunt down forks), rather than being greeted by a 404 when they e.g. follow old links to your repository. It would make it clearer to people that you're not interesting in maintaining the project further (which is perfectly fine of course!), rather than them being left wondering what happened.

Perhaps you could even do a quick edit to the README, e.g. pointing to @DanielNoord's new plugin as an alternative, before archiving it?

Thanks for all your work on it!

[Pierre-Sassoulas]

I've been able to fork pylint-pytest into PyCQA : https://github.com/PyCQA/pylint-pytest. Not sure if it's the right approach, or if it's possible to merge it with @DanielNoord plugins but I think it would be better if efforts were combined in a single plugin. Waiting for opinions before upgrading pylint's doc.

[mbyrnepr2]

In principle this sounds good to me, retaining the existing code. Would a transfer be better than forking, in order to retain existing pull requests, watchers etc? https://docs.github.com/en/repositories/creating-and-managing-repositories/transferring-a-repository

[ssbarnea]

Approach that I used in the past was to archive project and 3-6 months later to make it private, which is better than just removal.

[stdedos]

Would "you people" consider re-connecting the broken fork chain?
i.e. https://github.com/reverbc/pylint-pytest and https://github.com/gcapu/pylint-pytest

I'd like to pull "cleanly" reverbc/pylint-pytest#22 on the https://github.com/PyCQA/pylint-pytest

PyCQA/pylint-pytest#1

[nsp]

Thank you for moving the project to https://github.com/PyCQA/pylint-pytest .

I retargeted my MR to that repo, as PyCQA/pylint-pytest#3, and it has had no response for a month. Now that the project is moved, how do we follow through and make this an active project again?