Process to add a repository to `rust-lang`

Hi!

I was wondering whether there is any existing process to add a repository to the rust-lang organisation on GitHub. Maybe I missed it, but I looked around a bit and nothing obvious turned up.

Specifically, this is about the rustic repository, a more opinionated version of Emacs's rust-mode—which itself is in rust-lang—with some bells and whistles (some automated LSP configuration, better cargo and rustfmt integration, …). The maintainer, brotzeit (GitHub: brotzeit), looks to be unresponsive. Sibi Prabakaran (GitHub: psibi), who seems to be the current de-facto maintainer of rust-mode, has forked rustic to bring it up to speed with some more recent changes (e.g., supporting rust-mode with tree-sitter enabled). I.e., there is a need to rustic-mode to get updated once in a while and the code will not continue to work as-is for years. While Sibi has some kind of access to the original rustic-mode repository, he can't merge his own PRs; this obviously presents some issues in working on upstream, hence the fork. More information can be found here. Since rust-mode is already under the rust-lang umbrella, it seems to me that this would be the canonical place for rustic as well—this would obviously also reduce the bus factor significantly.

Thanks!

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