Ask for and add comunity maintainers for different port projects.

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task

Description

Nord port projects seem abandoned since 2018. Adding volunteer maintainer to the github repos will let the ports be updated by whoever volunteers for it.

Potential Solution

Add a pinned issue asking for maintainers, and add whoever volunteers to the repos commit access.

[sharpenedblade]

Also make port projects based on a a single stylesheet for something like base 16, pywal, and themer. This will make it much easier to make new ports, and update old ones

[shaunsingh]

Pardon me if I'm wrong, but doesn't nord already use the 16-color standard?

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It does, but to use those, you have to set each of nords colors to a specific element, and usualy doesnt look right when done wrong

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Also, nord has still been abandondond since 2018, its been 3 years since the last major thing, and 6 months since the last change

[shaunsingh]

Its pretty easy to use those 16 colors now, since they started to make templetes (https://github.com/chriskempson/base16#template-repositories)

There isn't anything to "port" to base-16, it already uses it. Pywal is a tool made for generating colors from wallpapers, I'm not sure where nord would fit in. Themer is for creating your own themes, not for generating themes off of a palette

Also, nord has still been abandondond since 2018, its been 3 years since the last major thing, and 6 months since the last change

It hasn't been abandoned whatsoever. This repository only serves to define the nord color palette, and offer swatches for all the major designer tools. It also serves as a place to discuss changes to the documentation, or possible new "official" port projects. The port projects themselves are still more than active.

E.g. https://github.com/arcticicestudio/nord-visual-studio-code, which had a major release just a while back, and https://github.com/arcticicestudio/nord-vim which just got treesitter and pandoc support a while back

From what I understand, the purpose of an "official" nord port is so you know

1. its upto the standards of articicestudios
2. Its maintained (usually primarily) by articicestudios

People can still PR whenever they want to, request for new official ports, or make un-official ports (e.g. nord.nvim and doom-nord) if they wish to maintain it themselves.

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I think number 2 is not really necessary, as long articicestudios reviews it from time to time. If something like draculas method is used, it could give articicestudios a lot less work maintain themes for every app out there, and focus on the theme, and any he wants to work on. This means high quality ports can be added to the website to raise awareness, while not being much extra work. A lot of the unofficial port devs would probably be okay with it being moved to the articicestudios org, and giving them write access to their port. Dracula currently has over 100 ports, though there not all maintained by the same person, they are checked sometimes to make sure they stay high quality. Meanwhile, most ports of nord are only founds after a lot of googling.

There isn't anything to "port" to base-16, it already uses it. Pywal is a tool made for generating colors from wallpapers, I'm not sure where nord would fit in. Themer is for creating your own themes, not for generating themes off of a palette

What I mean is to generate simple ports using those automatically, instead of doing it by hand. Pywal can be used for generating things of a palette, just make the input image squares with the colors, works pretty well for generating themes. The goal is to reduce the amount of work.