Hey Ed,

Have you tried this?

https://github.com/search?q=org%3Aapache+fineract+cn

As long as we stick to our naming convention this should consistently work.

I can't change topics on our repositories.  If you want to do this,
you should open a ticket with infra.

Best Regards,
Myrle

On Mon, Feb 5, 2018 at 7:36 PM, Ed Cable <[email protected]> wrote:
> Myrle,
>
> As I was trying to send a link to the Apache Fineract CN repositories to a
> new partner looking to contribute, I realized how difficult that is to do
> within Github given the separate repository per microservice and now that
> all the repositories aren't the sole repositories under the organization.
>
> Unfortunately, despite requests for support for folders or namespaces or
> ways to organize repositories within and across organizations for years now
> (1) Github still doesn't properly support this.
>
> Right now one would have to share 30+ links or just tell someone to go to
> apache organization and search fineract-cn
>
> I believe the best way to do this would be use their "topics" feature (2,3)
>
> We could give a topic-name of "fineract-cn" to each of the repositories for
> each microservice and then we could create a search filter like this user
> has done at (4) to provide one link for a user to find all the
> repositories.
>
> We could also add in topics like core-banking, microservices, cloud-native,
> open-banking, mobile-banking, etc as other topics to make the repositories
> more discoverable.
>
> Only admins of the repo have access to add topics - if you think this is a
> good approach to take, could you please begin adding those topics? Or I can
> do so if I have necessary permissions.
>
> 1) https://github.com/dear-github/dear-github/issues/74
> 2) https://github.com/blog/2309-introducing-topics
> 3) https://help.github.com/articles/about-topics/
> 4)
> https://github.com/dear-github/dear-github/issues/74#issuecomment-363050458
>
> Cheers,
>
> Ed

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