[Owncloud] Name of app repositories

Tue Mar 19 00:36:26 UTC 2013

Just tested this out with moving Notes, and works perfectly.

Just make sure you use a fresh clone of the apps repo, otherwise it will
break your symlinks, and branches and everything.

On Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 10:42 PM, Alessandro Cosentino <cosenal at gmail.com>wrote:

> 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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