I think that's precisely what I asked them, right? I asked if we could preserve this stuff, and it sounds like if you grant the access, they can move it under Apache without losing the forks/watchers/etc.
On Fri, Apr 22, 2016 at 12:50 PM, Maxime Beauchemin < [email protected]> wrote: > I'm not migrating the Github repository until we figure out how to > preserve links, stars, forks and watches. Joining Apache should not get in > the way of the goals we're trying to achieve by joining Apache (generate > awareness, making it easy to get involved and collaborate, ...) > > For the Apache infra people, they should already be aware of this Github > feature that preserves all of that: > > > The fact that they would not be aware of the existence of that feature > makes me a bit scared to click the red button. > > > Max > > On Fri, Apr 22, 2016 at 12:28 PM, Chris Riccomini <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Hey all, >> >> I checked in with INFRA. Conversation is below the fold. @Maxime, it >> sounds >> like we can preserve stuff if we can grant some of the root Apache people >> access to the repo so that they can do the move. Does that sound do-able >> on >> your end? >> >> Cheers, >> Chris >> >> ----- >> Chris Riccomini >> 11:51 AM >> Hey all >> Had a question about incubator git migration >> Daniel Takamori (pono) >> 11:51 AM >> Shoot. >> Chris Riccomini >> 11:52 AM >> Airflow is currently on Github and has >2000 stars, > 200 watchers, and >> >500 forks >> if we migrate to github.com/apache/incubator-airflow >> is there a way that we can maintain these? >> they lend a lot of legitimacy to the project >> Daniel Takamori (pono) >> 11:52 AM >> @Humbedooh has the most experience interfacing with GitHub >> Chris Riccomini >> 11:52 AM >> can we assign ownership of the source repo to apache? (it's currently >> under >> AirBNB's repo on github) >> Daniel Takamori (pono) >> 11:52 AM >> It might be possible to do that if we contact GitHub, I don't know of >> anyway we could do that on our side. >> Changing ownership and changing the name seems possible though. >> David Nalley >> 11:56 AM >> if AirBNB can temporarily make one of the root@ folks an admin that has >> karma to transfer repos on the AirBNB team we can transfer pretty easily. >> Chris Riccomini >> 11:58 AM >> @ke4qqq I believe we can have them do that >> @ke4qqq let me check with them >> >> On Thu, Apr 21, 2016 at 9:59 PM, Bolke de Bruin <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >> > Maybe mirror the incubator repo "in" the current Airbnb repo as well? >> > >> > Sent from my iPhone >> > >> > > On 22 apr. 2016, at 03:00, Chris Riccomini <[email protected]> >> > wrote: >> > > >> > > Perhaps we can ask Infra. >> > > >> > > On Thu, Apr 21, 2016 at 5:52 PM, Chris Riccomini < >> [email protected]> >> > > wrote: >> > > >> > >> @Maxime, I doubt it will preserve any of that. :( >> > >> >> > >> On Thu, Apr 21, 2016 at 5:44 PM, Maxime Beauchemin < >> > >> [email protected]> wrote: >> > >> >> > >>> Will the method of transfer preserve the 2500+ stars, 200+ watches >> and >> > >>> 500+ >> > >>> forks? What about connectivity of people's git "remote" references? >> > >>> >> > >>> I know that the normal method for transferring a repo from an org to >> > >>> another works nicely in that regard. Is that the case here? If not, >> > what's >> > >>> the rational for the alternative method? >> > >>> >> > >>> Stars/forks and watches are assets that we should preserve. >> > >>> >> > >>> Thanks, >> > >>> >> > >>> Max >> > >>> >> > >>> On Thu, Apr 21, 2016 at 5:15 PM, Chris Riccomini < >> > [email protected]> >> > >>> wrote: >> > >>> >> > >>>> Hey Jakob/Hitesh, >> > >>>> >> > >>>> One question that did come up about code migration was whether we >> need >> > >>> to >> > >>>> migrate the code now, or whether we can wait until graduation. I'm >> > >>> nearly >> > >>>> 100% certain that we need to migrate now. >> > >>>> >> > >>>> One gripe with this is that the repo is currently >> `incubator-airflow`, >> > >>> but >> > >>>> will presumably just become `airflow` after graduation, which means >> > >>> ANOTHER >> > >>>> migration. I recall the graduation migration being fairly >> light-weight >> > >>>> (they just rename the repo), but I wanted to follow up on this to >> > check. >> > >>>> >> > >>>> Cheers, >> > >>>> Chris >> > >> >> > >> >> > >> > >
