Has any thought been given to creating an organization on GitHub for HyperXTalk? Similar to what OpenXTalk_org did. Doing it earlier rather than later would be good since the upstream repo would change (a redirect does get made though). Emily already did the hard part by starting the repo fresh vice just forking.
There are things available (extensions, widgets, libraries, etc.) that are not currently packaged in a way that is directly usable by and end user of the app. A couple examples are mergJSON and mergMarkdown. There is a repo for each that is cloned at OXT but it isn’t compiled/ready for use. While anybody with proper skills should be able to clone and compile it, as a service to the community it would be nice to have the binaries available for download (LC used to provide them, but the links are dead and code was never made available for M series chips).
While we could add some things like this to thirdparty, it is probably better to keep this kind of thing separate from the main project. I’m kind of surprised LC didn’t do it that way to start but then again since it is MIT licensed they didn’t have to post it.
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When you look at the GitHub URL, the first part is the organization or individual. Currently HyperXTalk’s repo is under /emily-elizabeth/. If you look at other projects that I’m referencing they are under /livecode/ and /OpenXTalk_org/as the organization.
In your profile on GitHub, there is a tab for Organizations. Currently HyperXTalk is a personal project of yours. Some other projects create an Organization in GitHub to host all the related projects. You could, for example, create an “HyperXTalk” organization and then move the applicable repos to that org with saves all work, issues, PRs, etc. GitHub will redirect forks to the new name so it shouldn’t break anyone who has already forked the repo but they will also be able to update the upstream link to the org URL.
I find it funny that OpenXTalk has an organization considering that Tom doesn’t use GItHub and stores everything on Mega. I wonder if that was Paul that did that?
Yes, this is primordial stuff initiated by Paul, Seth Morrow et al. Tom came later.
By the way Brian suggested a clean fork there once, but to no avail.
History buff here 
Well, I think we did the clean break from the LiveCode fork, it’s the organization thing that has me intrigued. I took a look and we can do a free one (I’m cheap) I just got stumped by the “individual” or “company” organization as I’m looking to start a company, but we don’t have any business information right now.
I just took a look at features and noticed that the free organization does not include wiki. I’m going to set one up for my business to see how it works for myself and I can provide feedback if desired.