Support: Contacting owner of readthedocs.io project who isn't core maintainer to request ownership transfer

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Support: Contacting owner of readthedocs.io project who isn't core maintainer to request ownership transfer #4086

Closed colinoflynn closed 6 years ago

colinoflynn commented 6 years ago

Details

Read the Docs project URL: http://chipwhisperer.readthedocs.io
Build URL (if applicable):
Read the Docs username (if applicable): coflynn (mine)

Expected Result

The readthedocs.io link for the ChipWhisperer project (http://github.com/newaetech/chipwhisperer) isn't pointing to the main repo, as the readthedocs.io project isn't owned by a core maintainer, and they are very outdated. Would like to contact the current readthedocs.io user and ask if OK to transfer project to us.

Can't find an email to ask them anywhere, so would appreciate it if you could reach out. If OK then please transfer ownership to coflynn account.

Actual Result

N/A

safwanrahman commented 6 years ago

Can you get the email address of @phonchi from the repositroy commit log? https://github.com/phonchi/chipwhisperer

colinoflynn commented 6 years ago

I didn't think that github would be redacting the emails online, so didn't even try cloning it. Yes that worked - will see if it was the true/active email, I've just sent them a note!

I'll update this when I hear back, as assume anything else would need RTD admin to process.

colinoflynn commented 6 years ago

Quick update - did receive an OK, please let me know how to proceed, Thanks.

stsewd commented 6 years ago

@colinoflynn you can check https://docs.readthedocs.io/en/latest/abandoned-projects.html I think you only need to ask him and that is.

colinoflynn commented 6 years ago

I had seen those instructions (why I opened the issue originally), but it wasn't clear how moving the project itself has possible? Do they just delete the project and I recreate it on the new account is best?

humitos commented 6 years ago

Quick update - did receive an OK, please let me know how to proceed, Thanks.

Didn't he added you as a maintainer under the rtd project? If he agreed with you, you can ask him to grant you permissions. After that, you will have access to the project.

stsewd commented 6 years ago

Do they just delete the project and I recreate it on the new account is best?

Not sure about that, I think if he adds you as maintainer is the same result

stsewd commented 6 years ago

I can see that you were added as a maintainer of the rtd project, closing. Feel free to reopen if that wasn't the case.