Refresh EbookLib for the 1.0 release

[aerkalov]

There is a bunch of things we need to do.

Project related:

• Clean up all the PR requests. Accept the relevant ones and cancel others.
• Clean up all the Issues. Close the very old ones, the ones which have answers and etc. Leave the relevant ones which might require some action.
• Introduce verification GitHub workflows when people create PR (black/ruff/isort/black/flake8)

Library related:

• Reformat entire code using black/ruff and validate it later on each PR (when most of PR are closed)
• Write different kind of tests for the existing code so we can be sure that we don't fail in further refactoring of the existing code
• Remove support for Python 2.x. This means removing six dependency and focusing on Python 3.x
• Introduce typing support (and mypy after that)

Documentation related:

• Describe what is the philosophy behind this library to help people better understands what is library capable of doing and what is not
• Write how to create Covers
• Write how to prepare PR (beware to document things, beware of breaking current functionality or APi and etc)
• Write more useful examples how to use the library

[jgarte]

Hi, does this project currently have a test suite?

If not, would contributing a test suite using Pytest be accepted in a PR?

From a quick glance it looks like not.

[cary-rowen]

Do we have some automated remediation misses for bad metadata?
<package version="2.0" unique-identifier="PrimaryID" mlns="http://www.idpf.org/2007/opf">
For the above, I don't know why this namespace is wrong, it could be a typo. But this will completely prevent ebooklib from parsing further.

[ashrobertsdragon]

I would be willing to contribute type annotations

[ddaws]

Hey @aerkalov are you open to accepting more maintainers? I just put up my first PR into the repo but I'd be up for helping to review and merge MRs, and add some tests and workflows steps to ensure stability

[Jeffxz]

It would be nice to have better support on fixed layout epub.

• add prepagination and spread in manifest meta
• be able to add viewport in each xhtml

[cary-rowen]

cc @aerkalov Are you still following this? I see there are contributors willing to contribute to this, do you have any ideas?