Re: [Quantlib-dev] Reorganization of Git repository

[Luigi B. <lui...@gm...>]

Hi Francois,
    we talked about that, and I'm not against it. We even tried making the
project account on GitHub, just to find that http://github.com/quantlib was
already taken, so in case we'll have to go for quantlib-official
or something like it.

(Oh, and if you're the owner of the above project and you're reading this,
we would appreciate a lot if you could rename it and free it. Not
demanding, just asking. It would be a nice gesture.)

For the time being, though, the idea was more that of a federation of
repos, so mine would be the main one for the core C++ library, Eric's would
be the main one for the Excel addin and so on. We kind of wanted to
de-bureaucratize the thing, as it were, so that if someone wrote another
QuantLib module there would be no need to ask to be included in the
"official" club.  I appreciate that it could be confusing, though, so we're
open to feedback on this.

Later,
    Luigi

On Sat, Nov 7, 2015 at 10:16 AM Francois Botha <ig...@gm...> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Isn't this also a good time to create a quantlib organisation account on
> github and move the official repository to e.g.
> http://github.com/quantlib/quantlib ? Just a suggestion. I definitely
> don't want to detract from all the effort that Luigi has put in. It just
> seems the norm for projects to have their own organisation account on
> github these days.
>
> regards
>
> Francois Botha
>
> On 26 October 2015 at 16:09, Luigi Ballabio <lui...@gm...>
> wrote:
>
>> [ cross-posted to quantlib-users and quantlib-dev; apologies for any
>> duplicates. ]
>>
>> Hi all,
>>     I'm currently 3 or 4 issues away from setting up the 1.7 release.
>>
>> Shortly after doing that, and in concert with the other maintainers, I'll
>> reorganize the Git repository so that the current, monolithic one
>> containing all the modules will be split into smaller ones, with one module
>> per current directory; thus, there will be a repository for the core C++
>> library, one for the Excel addin and so on.
>>
>> This will make it more convenient for the maintainers to manage the
>> modules for which they have responsibility, and will also make it a lot
>> easier to add new modules.  We had considered doing this when we migrated
>> from subversion to git, and in hindsight we should have gone ahead at that
>> time.
>>
>> I'm aware this will cause inconveniences to the 500+ people that forked
>> the repository on GitHub.  I am sorry for this, and I will try to minimize
>> the pain: I'll migrate the open pull requests to the new repository, and
>> I'll try to make some kind of guide to help those of you with local changes
>> to move them to the new fork. In the meantime, your current forks are not
>> going away.
>>
>> Thanks for the understanding. I'll post a timeline as soon as I have one.
>>
>> Luigi
>>
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