@Majutsushi: thank you for taking on (I hope) this work. IMO someone must be a gatekeeper for changes and I would be happy if that person is you.
What I mean by "gatekeeper" is someone who accepts (or not) changes made by other people and chooses when to release the changes. The "accept" process is influenced by the proposed changes and by work in progress. That is what I have been doing, merging proposed changes into my repo. I think using a Pull Request (PR) system would be better but I haven't bothered to set that up.
What I am trying to say is that I would be happy:
- for you to coordinate changes, especially as apparently you will be making your own changes as you refactor / clean up.
- to use a PR system instead of direct commits to your repo.
- to make "official" releases (changes to first post) for you. Alternatively and I think better: you can make a new thread and I change the Index of Plugins to reference that new thread, which would take me out of the release loop.
One note: Kobo Utilities is tied rather tightly into the calibre Kobo Driver. You will likely find reasons you want to change both the driver and the utilities. @Kovid is very open to accepting changes from people who seem reliable and will be around for a while. He uses PRs and it works well.