Re: [Quantlib-dev] [Quantlib-users] Reorganization of Git repository

[Peter C. <pca...@gm...>]

you can contact the owner through the github support, I will try to
send them a polite message in parallel to Luigi's mail above (in case
they are not subscribed to this list - which would be weird somehow,
but maybe their project is totally unrelated, who knows)
Peter

On 15 November 2015 at 10:03, Francois Botha <ig...@gm...> wrote:
> 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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