[Pandas-dev] Our own GitHub organization?

[Stephan Hoyer]

Too bad about the "pandas" GitHub name. Still, if you want to go for this,
I say you should go ahead.

My sense (have not checked actual data here) is that all other projects
than pandas add a very minimal amount of CI burden, though.

On Tue, Aug 23, 2016 at 12:06 PM, Wes McKinney <wesmckinn at gmail.com> wrote:

> According to GitHub, the pandas account is showing activity that is
> not publicly visible. I've contacted the user twice in an effort to
> start a dialog but GitHub is very strict about protecting users'
> privacy.
>
> We could do something like @pandas-org for the time being, and hope
> that at some point we are able to contact the @pandas user (or they
> become inactive).
>
> - Wes
>
> On Tue, Aug 23, 2016 at 11:49 AM, Stephan Hoyer <shoyer at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Did you have any luck going through GitHub's process for reclaiming an
> > unused name? You don't necessarily need to contact the account owner for
> > this.
> > https://help.github.com/articles/name-squatting-policy/
> >
> > I'm +1 for switching to a dedicated pandas org. GitHub's redirects do
> make
> > this quite smooth.
> >
> > The main reason I switched xarray to pydata (from the separate xray org)
> is
> > because I didn't think I would be successful claiming xarray, which
> appears
> > to be in active use.
> >
> > On Tue, Aug 23, 2016 at 11:40 AM, Wes McKinney <wesmckinn at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> We've occasionally discussed moving pandas and associated repos to a
> >> dedicated GitHub organization.
> >>
> >> Some arguments for moving to our own org:
> >>
> >> - More clear what repositories are part of the "pandas" umbrella (we
> >> can potentially formalize this in the pandas-governance repo)
> >>
> >> - Dedicated capacity from CI services
> >>
> >> - Easier for us to more clearly develop our own open source project
> >> branding independent from PyData (which has increasingly primarily
> >> become a conference / meetup brand)
> >>
> >> While I haven't had any success contacting the owner of
> >> github.com/pandas, if we can pick a suitable org name we might
> >> consider it. GitHub's route forwarding (including git remotes) makes
> >> org changes pretty painless these days
> >>
> >> Thoughts?
> >>
> >> - Wes
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> >
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