Flask and many of the other Pallets projects benefit from having a diverse ecosystem of user-maintained extensions. However, we recognize that not every extension creator can maintain an extension indefinitely. Last year, the Pallets team started the Pallets Community Organization, aka Pallets-Eco, on GitHub to provide a place where the community can work together to maintain the extensions that we all rely on.
The popular Flask-Caching and Flask-OpenID extensions have already been moved to Pallets-Eco.
In time, we hope that this organization will ensure the stability of the Pallets ecosystem and provide a great point of entry for new contributors.
Although we expect that most extensions we take in will be for Flask, the organization is open to extensions for any of the Pallets projects—Click, Jinja, Werkzeug, etc.
It's important to note, however, that this is not an official extension repository. Extensions in this organization are not guaranteed to be up to date or maintained by the Pallets team. Rather, this is a centralized place for members of the wider community to help maintain these extensions.
The Pallets Community Organization is not currently accepting non-extension projects, such as documentation translations. If you are interested in such projects, join the Pallets Discord and ask about the Flask Community Working Group.
First, reach out on Discord (in the #pallets-eco
channel) to express your interest. Only the current owner of a repository can
transfer it, so please don't inquire on behalf of extensions you don't own. If
there is an abandoned extension that you want to start maintaining, fork it,
work on it, and then ask about joining Pallets-Eco.
Second, review the GitHub docs on transferring a repo. We will work with you to transfer the repo into the Pallets-Eco organization.
Third, you will need to give some of our organization members access to make releases on PyPI.
Keep in mind that transferring your extension to the Pallets Community Organization means you're giving up the final say on how your extension evolves. You will remain as a collaborator on your extension and can continue to contribute, but other members will have input on pull requests and when releases are made. If you prefer to keep your extension completely under your control, then Pallets-Eco is not for you.
Whether you're interested in maintaining one extension in particular or just contributing to the organization overall, we welcome new contributors! This is a great starting point if you've always wanted to contribute to a Pallets project but haven't seen an issue you are ready to tackle—most of the issues in an extension will be smaller in scope and easier to resolve.
All extensions in the Pallets Community Organization follow the same contributing guidelines as the core Pallets projects. Different extensions will come to the organization with different testing coverage and documentation completion. To that end, even if an extension doesn't have open issues, it's likely you could improve its tests and/or docs. After you have reviewed the contributing guidelines, fork the repo, make changes, and open a pull request when you are ready.
Release permissions will be limited to trusted members of the organization
(you could become one in time). If you have questions that don't belong in a
specific extension's issues, ask in #pallets-eco on the Pallets Discord.