[Pandas-dev] Our own GitHub organization?

[Wes McKinney]

I've parked github.com/pandas-dev for the time being. Interested to
see what others think about the migration

On Tue, Aug 23, 2016 at 12:25 PM, Stephan Hoyer <shoyer at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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