Task: Create theme maintainers team and see who is still wanting to help maintain themes

Need to create a theme maintainers list so that theme maintainers who desire can keep their themes up-to-date.

The overall idea being that themes (like grammars) are never “one and done” that over time they require a (small) amount of maintenance to keep up with changes in the core library, grammars, theming in general, etc. Themes that have no owner/maintainer should possibly be moved into an old_themes repository/folder with a README that indicates they may not provide the best results compared to core themes.

Of course we’d love it if all themes were maintained and provided a great experience.

What kind of things require upkeep? See #2500, #2521, etc… plus the recent additions of property, punctuation, operator, and other prior and upcoming changes… but this issue is just trying to get everyone onto a team so I can more easily contact you. After that I’ll focus on typing up a list of things you may want to consider when refreshing your themes to take advantage of recent changes and improvements.

Added by HLJS Team

• default.css
• mono-blue.css
• ascetic.css (Ivan)
• dark.css (Ivan)
• googlecode.css

Unmaintained

• androidstudio.css
• arduino-light.css (not with Arduino anymore, forwarded request along to Arduino peoples)
• arta.css ([e-mail]) (email bounced)
• docco.css
• ir-black.css ([e-mail]) (email bounced)
• vs.css
• foundation.css - " Since Foundation has moved on substantially, I’m not even sure the existing theme makes much sense anymore. It would be best if someone recreated it anew."
• gml.css - (thumbs down on maintaining)

Base16

These should be auto-build from Base16 sources… see #3132.

• atelier-cave-dark.css
• atelier-cave-light.css
• atelier-dune-dark.css
• atelier-dune-light.css
• atelier-estuary-dark.css
• atelier-estuary-light.css
• atelier-forest-dark.css
• atelier-forest-light.css
• atelier-heath-dark.css
• atelier-heath-light.css
• atelier-lakeside-dark.css
• atelier-lakeside-light.css
• atelier-plateau-dark.css
• atelier-plateau-light.css
• atelier-savanna-dark.css
• atelier-savanna-light.css
• atelier-seaside-dark.css
• atelier-seaside-light.css
• atelier-sulphurpool-dark.css
• atelier-sulphurpool-light.css
• darcula.css
• dracula.css
• gruvbox-dark.css
• gruvbox-light.css
• solarized-dark.css
• solarized-light.css
• tomorrow-night-blue.css
• tomorrow-night-bright.css
• tomorrow-night-eighties.css
• tomorrow-night.css
• tomorrow.css
• zenburn.css
• ocean.css
• railscasts.css
• hopscotch.css (idleberg)

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Reached out

• a11y-dark.css
• a11y-light.css
• agate.css
• an-old-hope.css
• atom-one-dark-reasonable.css
• atom-one-dark.css
• atom-one-light.css
• brown-paper.css ([e-mail])
• codepen-embed.css
• color-brewer.css
• far.css - ([e-mail])
• github-gist.css
• github.css
• gradient-dark.css
• gradient-light.css
• grayscale.css
• hybrid.css
• idea.css
• isbl-editor-dark.css
• isbl-editor-light.css
• kimbie.dark.css
• kimbie.light.css
• lightfair.css
• lioshi.css
• magula.css
• monokai-sublime.css
• monokai.css
• night-owl.css
• nnfx-dark.css
• nnfx.css
• nord.css
• obsidian.css
• paraiso-dark.css
• paraiso-light.css
• pojoaque.css - perhaps atelierbram wants to help here? Pinged Jason Tate on Twitter
• purebasic.css
• qtcreator_dark.css
• qtcreator_light.css
• rainbow.css
• routeros.css
• school-book.css
• shades-of-purple.css
• srcery.css
• stackoverflow-dark.css
• stackoverflow-light.css
• sunburst.css
• vs2015.css
• xcode.css
• xt256.css

[joshgoebel]

The real question is whether the Base16 template for highlight.js is a correct implementation that respects the style guideline.

Well, I think it’s a passable start for sure… though I’m open to feedback. 😃 I posted a side-by-side over in the issue on the subject and we don’t exactly match the sample (I’m not sure we should), but it’s close. Obviously it’s easy to update the template and rebuild the themes as improvements are made.

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OH. And boom, FINALLY understanding. 😃 You’re referring to https://github.com/chriskempson/base16-builder/tree/master/templates/highlight.js

I had no idea such a thing existed as it’s not documented anywhere nor included in base16-templates repo… I’ll have a look as this offers a point of comparison with the NEW template I just made.

[joshgoebel]

@Hirse Might you still be interesting to own and maintain the Stack Overflow themes moving forward? I see you had the original commit. Also if you’re interested in owning any of the other themes without a home, let me know. 😃 Should be minimal effort over time.