Re: [Quantlib-dev] Reorganization of Git repository

[Francois B. <ig...@gm...>]

Ah, I did a quick check and thought the name was available. I see now it
was registered in May 2014 - not too long ago! (
https://api.github.com/orgs/quantlib )

Pity there's no contact info anywhere.

Francois Botha

On 13 November 2015 at 13:09, Luigi Ballabio <lui...@gm...>
wrote:

> 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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