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

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

We tried that. No joy.

Luigi

On 18:41, Sun, Nov 15, 2015 Peter Caspers <pca...@gm...> wrote:

> 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
> >>>>
> >>>> --
> >>>>
> >>>> <http://leanpub.com/implementingquantlib>
> >>>> <http://implementingquantlib.com>
> >>>> <http://twitter.com/lballabio>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
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