New org owner

[yajo]

Hi all!

Since some time ago, I've had very few free time to devote to Copier. That makes me sad because I love the project, but it's evolved a lot from covering a need I had some years ago to becoming an industry standard.

These days I don't get much paid to maintain this great tool, as my current job doesn't cover this time, apart from any features or fixes I'd need for that job, treating it (economically) as any other contribution to any other FLOSS project.

I love Copier, but my free time is now very limited and it's not a matter of economical viability anymore. I just don't have the time. 😞

Since I became the lead Copier maintainer (FWIW I'm the 3rd bearing that hat in Copier's history), I think the community around it has become quite cool. Very understanding, collaborative and helpful! With the goal of providing a tool that's easy to use, it seems to have attracted the kind of people that love attention to details, digging into complex algorithms and keeping code as clean as possible. Amazing.

So, today I decided to make @sisp another owner of this @copier-org, having now the same privileges as I do. I did it without asking because I know you'll do a great job, and AFAIK you can do this during your work hours, which grants the project better sustainability. I didn't add @pawamoy too because I think he already maintains a lot of stuff, and still he already has quite a few privileges in the project. But if you want, I can add you (actually @sisp can do that too now).

I won't be subscribed anymore to everything at Copier and I will delete a few hundreds of notifications I still have unread. If you want help from me from now on, feel free to ping me and I'll do the best I can.

I stay as owner for now, because probably I still hold keys for some services. Also because I don't want to be fully detached from the project yet. 🥹

BTW I pushed f842729 some minutes ago so @sisp knows how to release now.

Thanks to both of you for your help all these years. Thanks to Copier community too. Keep going!

[sisp]

Thanks for all the work and love you've put into Copier, @yajo. 🙏❤️ IIRC, you introduced the update algorithm which is probably Copier's most significant feature – also according to feedback from my peers who use Copier. 🏆 Like you, I love this project because it contributes to scaling best practices and keeping project boilerplate synchronized through technical means, which reduces technical debt, facilitates knowledge transfer across individuals and teams, and boosts developer productivity. I'm grateful to you for entrusting me with this amazing project now. 🙇 I'll take good care of it together with @pawamoy and the fantastic community. 🤞

Let me know if you'd like additional permissions, @pawamoy.

A few thoughts about the path forward, @yajo:

• Is there anything to do on pypi.org to ensure access to https://pypi.org/project/copier/? I assume this is a user project of yours on pypi.org. Would you like to add me there as a collaborator as well? We may also request a PyPI organization, although I'm not sure about the benefits compared to a user project with multiple collaborators.
• With collaborator access on pypi.org, I suggest to migrate the release workflow to using a Trusted Publisher instead of a PyPI API token.

[pawamoy]

Congratulations @sisp! 😄

[yajo]

@sisp I invited you as owner on pypi.org and test.pypi.org

[sisp]

@yajo Thank you! 👌

[pawamoy]

Thanks for all the work on this project @yajo! Happy to hear that you'll stay around. I entirely approve this decision of making @sisp an owner as he's done an amazing job at maintaining and growing Copier 😄

[francesco086]

One question for @yajo

First of all many thanks for creating and maintaining this awesome open source project!
Furthermore, I would like to share that in my company we adopted Copier as a foundational tool for our AI platform.

Given its importance in my company, and the fact that I am not sure I will be really able to contribute with my time, I am trying to convince my company to invest in sponsoring this project (which I would find just fair!).
Not super easy, but it seems to be possible, I think it is a realistic goal.

What I would like to know: would this allow you (@yajo) to invest more time on this project?
Because if not, then I'd rather consider reserving some of my working time to support this project. This is not my first option because I think that there are already people way more qualified than me for this.

[yajo]

Well, I'm not sure, but contact me privately by email and let's discuss.