Adding mdformat & mdit-py-plugins maintainers

[KyleKing]

Hi! If you would be open to adding maintainers for mdformat-related projects, I would like to volunteer. While I have limited time, I can help with issue triage, limited PR approval, and software maintenance.

I've released a few plugins (mdformat-mkdocs, mdformat-obsidian, mdformat-gfm-alerts, mdformat-plugin-template, etc.) and have made a few very minor contributions to mdformat and mdit-py-plugins. This year, I was granted minimal rights to mdformat-gfm (hukkin/mdformat-gfm#31 (comment)) where I believe I've made a positive impact and is an example of how I could help. I would like to do more for a project I depend on.

I know that EBP/MyST have been active, but the markdown-it-side seems to have seen less activity (#841, #946, #961, etc.).

Who could make a decision about adding maintainers? In the past, I've interacted on Issues and PRs with @hukkin and @chrisjsewell

[agoose77]

@KyleKing this is a generous offer, it's much appreciated by the wider EB team. We are always looking for new maintainers! Your expertise in this space will be highly valued.

@hukkin is one of the main contributors to our mdformat related repos, so it would be nice to have his sign off on this. If we don't hear anything within the next two weeks, then I suppose we can move on unilaterally (it may be that Taneli is not available). I'll also ping @choldgraf to get a sign-off as this would be the first time that I've added a new contributor.

If you don't hear anything in the next week (the EB team are generally quite busy at the moment), please re-ping me!

[KyleKing]

Thanks, I am happy to help!

It looks like @hukkin may not be available right now, so I don't mind waiting if needed or if there is someone else who could weigh in

Edit: once I have permission, there are a couple of trivial PRs that should get merged and released linked from here: KyleKing/mdformat-admon#15

[choldgraf]

This sounds great. Please don't ask me for permission to add other people - you all have much better information than I do to make these decisions

[KyleKing]

@agoose77, what are the next steps?

[agoose77]

Let me get to this on Monday!

[MattKang]

@agoose77 @KyleKing Any update on this? Would love to see this PR merged executablebooks/mdformat-myst#28, and it looks like the existing maintainers may not be available