[Bug 1690215] [NEW] No maintainer, no project?

[Gary R Hook]

Public bug reported:

This tool was originally written in 2004, and comes from Daring
Fireball. It has never been a "project" and has no code repository.

Yet it had/has flaws, and some changes have been made as part of Ubuntu.
And there are users of the tool (notably Xen) so it appears that this
simple invention is not going anywhere.

But it needs some love.

Since there is no project/owner/maintainer, I would like to adopt this
project, put it up on github  in a proper repo, and make some changes
and improvements to it. Assuming I get agreement from the original
author...

How do I go about doing that, in a way that helps Canonical incorporate
new versions of the project?

** Affects: markdown (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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Title:
  No maintainer, no project?

Status in markdown package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  This tool was originally written in 2004, and comes from Daring
  Fireball. It has never been a "project" and has no code repository.

  Yet it had/has flaws, and some changes have been made as part of
  Ubuntu. And there are users of the tool (notably Xen) so it appears
  that this simple invention is not going anywhere.

  But it needs some love.

  Since there is no project/owner/maintainer, I would like to adopt this
  project, put it up on github  in a proper repo, and make some changes
  and improvements to it. Assuming I get agreement from the original
  author...

  How do I go about doing that, in a way that helps Canonical
  incorporate new versions of the project?

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