[Pandas-dev] Our own GitHub organization?

[Tom Augspurger]

I just migrated a repo and it was painless. Is there a reason to wait till
after the release candidate?

On Mon, Sep 5, 2016 at 9:34 AM, Joris Van den Bossche <
jorisvandenbossche at gmail.com> wrote:

> I am positive on a move (although the 'pandas' org would be nice), so OK
> with going ahead.
>
> Joris
>
> 2016-09-05 16:04 GMT+02:00 Wes McKinney <wesmckinn at gmail.com>:
>
>> What does everyone think about going ahead with the move? I imagine
>> there are a variety of services (e.g. Travis CI and others) we'll need
>> to migrate over concurrently. Want to avoid possible disruptions to
>> day-to-day development (luckily GitHub has made this mostly painless
>> in my experience).
>>
>> On Tue, Aug 23, 2016 at 5:42 PM, Wes McKinney <wesmckinn at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> > 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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>> >>> >
>> >>
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