<div dir="ltr">Just tested this out with moving Notes, and works perfectly.<div><br></div><div>Just make sure you use a fresh clone of the apps repo, otherwise it will break your symlinks, and branches and everything.</div>
</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 10:42 PM, Alessandro Cosentino <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:cosenal@gmail.com" target="_blank">cosenal@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">this should help to move the repository without losing the history:<br>
<a href="https://help.github.com/articles/splitting-a-subpath-out-into-a-new-repo" target="_blank">https://help.github.com/articles/splitting-a-subpath-out-into-a-new-repo</a><br>
I haven't tried it yet though<br>
<br>
On Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 1:34 PM, Jan-Christoph Borchardt<br>
<div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><<a href="mailto:hey@jancborchardt.net">hey@jancborchardt.net</a>> wrote:<br>
> Oh and please – don’t put off these discussions as unnecessary just because<br>
> they don’t improve the user experience. They need to be solved. We can’t<br>
> just break off certain things because »there are more important things right<br>
> now, like fixing bugs« because then we’ll not move forward. There are always<br>
> bugs to be fixed. This is not a binary choice, as so often, but we need to<br>
> balance.<br>
><br>
><br>
> On Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 1:31 PM, Jan-Christoph Borchardt<br>
> <<a href="mailto:hey@jancborchardt.net">hey@jancborchardt.net</a>> wrote:<br>
>><br>
>> How we moved Mail:<br>
>><br>
>> * asked Frank for a new repo »mail«, with the relevant people to be added<br>
>> as contributors/admins<br>
>> * moved the code from the apps repo to the new repo (of course history<br>
>> gets lost but that’s ok), deleted the code in the apps repo<br>
>> * started using the new issue tracker and moved the old issues (only 10)<br>
>> by hand<br>
>><br>
>> There seems to be a better way to bulk move issues, see the 2 solutions<br>
>> proposed at<br>
>> <a href="http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9720718/how-do-i-move-an-issue-on-github-to-another-repo" target="_blank">http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9720718/how-do-i-move-an-issue-on-github-to-another-repo</a>,<br>
>> please advise if you try it out.<br>
>><br>
>> Alessandro: There is a repo »news« as requested by Bernhard, I suppose you<br>
>> can move the News app there.<br>
>><br>
>><br>
>><br>
>><br>
>><br>
>> On Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 9:35 AM, Alessandro Cosentino <<a href="mailto:cosenal@gmail.com">cosenal@gmail.com</a>><br>
>> wrote:<br>
>>><br>
>>> agreed. sorry for the futile discussion.<br>
>>><br>
>>> some more practical information:<br>
>>> - can we already go ahead and move the code?<br>
>>> - is each maintainer going to do it by himself?<br>
>>> - is it easy to move the issues too? some of them are not properly<br>
>>> tagged, maybe we should do some triaging before.<br>
>>> - has anyone already done this and can provide a 2-lines howto?<br>
>>><br>
>>> Thanks,<br>
>>> Alessandro<br>
>>><br>
>>><br>
>>> On Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 9:10 AM, Jakob Sack <<a href="mailto:mail@jakobsack.de">mail@jakobsack.de</a>> wrote:<br>
>>> > Hi,<br>
>>> ><br>
>>> > I did not want to start a discussion about splitting up of the apps<br>
>>> > repository. I know that this is already happening and I think that it's<br>
>>> > a<br>
>>> > good idea.<br>
>>> > The point I'm talking about is the introduction of a namespace for the<br>
>>> > new<br>
>>> > app repositories. As some of you pointed out that it won't improve the<br>
>>> > UX<br>
>>> > and everybody knows how to use the search I consider this proposal to<br>
>>> > be<br>
>>> > rejected.<br>
>>> ><br>
>>> > Jakob<br>
>>> ><br>
>>> > Am 18.03.2013 07:50, schrieb Frank Karlitschek:<br>
>>> ><br>
>>> >> As I said.<br>
>>> >> It's O.K. for curtain "bigger" apps to have an own repository. And<br>
>>> >> only if<br>
>>> >> the maintainer requests it.<br>
>>> >> Having this for every single small app introduces chaos without a<br>
>>> >> benefit.<br>
>>> >><br>
>>> >> In the meantime I suggest that we try to fix the urgent bugs that we<br>
>>> >> currently have instead of discussions like that that don't improve the<br>
>>> >> experience for ownCloud users.<br>
>>> >><br>
>>> >> Frank<br>
>>> >><br>
>>> >><br>
>>> >> On 17.03.2013, at 23:06, Alessandro Cosentino<<a href="mailto:cosenal@gmail.com">cosenal@gmail.com</a>><br>
>>> >> wrote:<br>
>>> >><br>
>>> >>> I totally agree on this splitting and I totally agree with the naming<br>
>>> >>> proposed by Jakob.<br>
>>> >>> Code and commits should be easy to migrate. Is it easy to do the<br>
>>> >>> migration of the issues to the new repos?<br>
>>> >>><br>
>>> >>> Alessandro<br>
>>> >>><br>
>>> >>><br>
>>> >>> On Sun, Mar 17, 2013 at 9:44 PM, Frank<br>
>>> >>> Karlitschek<<a href="mailto:frank@owncloud.org">frank@owncloud.org</a>><br>
>>> >>> wrote:<br>
>>> >>>><br>
>>> >>>> On 17.03.2013, at 21:30, Jakob Sack<<a href="mailto:mail@jakobsack.de">mail@jakobsack.de</a>> wrote:<br>
>>> >>>><br>
>>> >>>>> Hello,<br>
>>> >>>>><br>
>>> >>>>> I really like the idea of splitting up the apps repository by<br>
>>> >>>>> creating<br>
>>> >>>>> a<br>
>>> >>>>> repository for each app.<br>
>>> >>>><br>
>>> >>>> I think it makes sense for the big apps where the developers request<br>
>>> >>>> such a change. For a lot of the smaller ones an apps repo for "the<br>
>>> >>>> rest" is<br>
>>> >>>> not a problem.<br>
>>> >>>><br>
>>> >>>><br>
>>> >>>>> However, I dislike the current names of these<br>
>>> >>>>> repositories.<br>
>>> >>>>> I'd prefer a naming schema like "app-mail" and "app-news". This way<br>
>>> >>>>> it'd be<br>
>>> >>>>> easy to distinguish the app repositories from the other 20+<br>
>>> >>>>> repositories.<br>
>>> >>>><br>
>>> >>>> Yes. I can rename them if the people who are working in them agree.<br>
>>> >>>><br>
>>> >>>><br>
>>> >>>>> Any comments?<br>
>>> >>>>> Best,<br>
>>> >>>>><br>
>>> >>>>> Jakob<br>
>>> ><br>
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