[Owncloud] Name of app repositories

[Alessandro Cosentino]

this should help to move the repository without losing the history:
https://help.github.com/articles/splitting-a-subpath-out-into-a-new-repo
I haven't tried it yet though

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