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Alabaster is a pypi library with a maintainer paid by Tidelift

The maintainers of Alabaster get paid by Tidelift to implement industry-leading secure software development practices and document the practices they follow.

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Thanks to maintainers working on projects like Alabaster, you can use Tidelift to give your teams access to a continuously curated stream of validated data about vetted components they need to make intelligent decisions, faster.

You can feel confident bringing Alabaster into your application’s dependency tree because the maintainers of Alabaster are paid by Tidelift to ensure their open source projects follow standardized secure software development practices.

Alabaster is a part of the Tidelift Subscription

Alabaster is a visually (c)lean, responsive, configurable theme for the Sphinx documentation system. It is Python 2+3 compatible.It began as a third-party theme, and is still maintained separately, but as of Sphinx 1.3, Alabaster is an install-time dependency of Sphinx and is selected as the default theme.

Alabaster is a modified (with permission) version of Kenneth Reitz's "krTheme" Sphinx theme (it's the one used in his Requests project). Kenneth's theme was itself originally based on Armin Ronacher's Flask theme. Many thanks to both for their hard work.

Alabaster is available via the PyPI package manager.

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Tidelift takes a unique, data driven approach to addressing the issue of bad packages. Tidelift partners with the maintainers of thousands of the most-relied-upon open source packages and pays them to implement industry-leading secure software development practices and document the practices they follow. The result is a unique source of cross-ecosystem package intelligence that customers use to identify and eliminate bad packages.

Tidelift’s package intelligence can be easily integrated into your preferred workflows using our flexible APIs or by adopting our web UI and CLI capabilities.

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The Tidelift maintainer advantage

Tidelift is the only company that partners with open source maintainers and pays them to: 
Implement industry-leading secure software development practices and validate the practices they follow so organizations can have the same confidence in the security of their open source that they have in their own code.
Contractually commit to continue these practices into the future so that organizations can confidently make long term investments in the packages they use.
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