Template ownership / "official" templates
Hey! I'm the maintainer of https://github.com/tailscale-dev/tclip and work at Tailscale.
There's a Railway template for tclip already that a community member made which is great (https://railway.app/new/template/HzYDtl) but I wanted to make some edits to it to add newer configuration options that are required for users who don't use our control server, many of these options have been added in the past months by me.
Is the only option to reach out to the template owner, or is there a process for me to create an "official" template to replace the community-authored one? While I'm happy to verify I work at Tailscale if my maintainership is in doubt, the only possible issue I can see is that we don't have a company Railway account to hold it on, only my own.
I had mentioned the request for more options to the author back in Sept on a PR they made to include a Railway deploy button to the project, but haven't had a response.
I've used Railway for a long time and dimly recall templates being in a GitHub repository before (as "Starters") but it seems to all be managed through the platform now, so I can't submit changes to them that way.
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Hello!
While it's not the only option, it would be the best option to reach out to the current template owner, they might even be down to give you the template given the context.
Otherwise we don't have a notion of official templates, and even though we know you do work at Tailscale, we can't replace their template or give it to you without their consent, since that wouldn't be fair to them. Worst case scenario if you don't hear back would be to publish a duplicate template under a Tailscale Railway team account.
Template sources used to be exclusively in a GitHub organization we managed, though the source didn't define template settings so that wouldn't have helped in this scenario.
@Morgan - Any chance you're around?
^ If that doesn't work, perhaps you could reach out on X or Email.