soft fork arc-theme for future maintenance

[fossfreedom]

**EDIT:

Soft fork of arc-theme is now available here:**

• https://github.com/NicoHood/arc-theme

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Hi @horst3180 ,

this is a reach-out as to the status of this project. I understand that you have been busy on other projects and maybe don't have the time to push through with current and future maintenance. Is this a correct statement? Apologies if otherwise.

Thus, would you support a fellow enthusiast to collaborate and drive forward with this project?

To everyone who has starred or is watching the project, are there anyone among you who is willing to be that collaborator?

Possibly under the guise of a soft-fork - i.e. make changes and feedback through PR's to here with changes.

[ItamarShDev]

though i am not yet fully understand the mechanism of theming. i am willing to learn more and contribute when i have time

[NicoHood]

@fossfreedom Is it correct, that you are the debian/ubuntu maintainer of the Arc-Theme?

I've tried to email horst about a week ago. He was really collaborative when he added the GPG Signatures. If he does not answer, we possibly need to go the way of a soft-fork.

My suggestion is, that we as OS Maintainers (I am packaging arc-theme for Arch Linux) continue the project as a fork, test new PRs and merge them if it makes sense to us. Once someone of the community contributes frequently to the project we could consider to make him a maintainer too. This way we can at least package those small fixes that appear in the recent PRs without writing tons of manual patches.

What do you think?

[fossfreedom]

@NicoHood correct ... Yes Debian maintainer.

Happy to support your suggestion.

[NicoHood]

@fossfreedom Nice! I've created a fork here: https://github.com/NicoHood/arc-theme
You should get an invitation link as collaborator via email.

To track changes from the current master, I've also tagged a new release:
https://github.com/NicoHood/arc-theme/releases/tag/20171105

I will look through the issues and PRs in the next days and comment there. We should give horst one more week to respond via mail. If he does we can merge back the changes without problems.

Edit: Here is some more information from Horst about how to do edits on this theme:
https://github.com/horst3180/arc-theme/blob/master/HACKING.md

[fossfreedom]

+1

[ghost]

I also would like to learn about theming and contribute in this project. Feel free to contact me.

[NicoHood]

@s-kaczmarek Sure. Feel free to review existing PRs and (re)open them on the new fork project.

[NicoHood]

@fossfreedom Can you please post the following link t the very top of the first post in bold? This thread can be found by google, so it is easier to navigate. The fork is still not listed on google.
https://github.com/NicoHood/arc-theme

[NicoHood]

@fossfreedom I am in contact with Github about the outdated upstream repository. They were also unable to contact horst. The only option currently is to detach the fork, so it will look like a normal repository. Do we want to do this or should we keep it as a fork? What do you think?

[fossfreedom]

@NicoHood hmm - agree with you - if we can we should detach.