Sorry, I missed a >>NOT<< there... On Thu, 11 Oct 2018 at 22:00, Sean P. DeNigris <s...@clipperadams.com> wrote:
> Ben Coman wrote > > It guess it should >>NOT<< impede someone using their account as a > staging point > > for migrating from Smalltalkhub projects to a community github repo. > > Two possible options: > 1. (maybe the cleanest and what I did for Artefact) - create a repo under > one's own account, which can then be pulled to the canonical and deleted. > Yes. That is what I meant. They repo doesn't stay under your account long enough to get caught up in Metacello references. > 2. (not tested) - create a repo with a different name (e.g. > "Artefact-Contribution") to be transferred and renamed (e.g. to just > "Artefact") under the proper organization. The question is whether one can > then create an "Artefect" under their own user. > I don't think that gains much more than my suggestion to delete the "master" branch from the repo under your account once its been adopted by its new canonical location. Its (generally) only the master branch that is referenced with Metacello. So that case and your case (2.) fail Metacello the same way, i.e. that a good thing > > #2 feels too clever. #1 is only a tiny bit more work. But certainly there > should be a decent sized group of users in Pharo-contributions or wherever > else we will be accepting these or there will be a bottleneck that will > discourage such efforts... > Possible option 3. An idea crossed my mind to soften the transition to a read-only Smalltalkhub. At the time that is done, perhaps a github organisation "Smalltalkhub" could be created and some scripts scrape all public Smalltalkhub repos under that organisation. In case two users have the same named Smalltalkhub repo, these could be combined into one github repo with a branch named for each user. Of course that itself would take some effort, but cumulatively less effort overall for the community than every individual doing it themselves, and leaving nothing behind might make it feasible to turn Smalltalkhub off altogether another year later. btw, thank you to those who provided Smalltalkhub. It filled an important role for a time. cheers -ben
