On Sun, Apr 18, 2010 at 09:21, Jay <[email protected]> wrote: > Google Code Administrators, > > As described in the attached correspondence below, a group of us are > working on a fork of the Chromium Project that will have some really > revolutionary features, which we're planning to call Thorium (With > public builds dubbed Thor). We're choosing to fork because these > features are not inline with the roadmap or direction the Chromium > project currently wishes to go. > > We're currently working on an local SVN setup, but would like to start > using Google Code so that others may collaborate and to abide by the > license agreements in the easiest possible way. (Make the source > available for everyone) > > I contacted the current registered owner of the "Thorium" project > name, and asked if he was partial to the name or if he'd mind letting > us use it. As you can see below, he graciously let us know he'd be > glad to let us have it. > > How do we go about transferring this over to our possession? Should I > have him email you directly? >
Can you add me (via cc:) to your existing communication with the current owner of thorium? That way, I'll confirm with him that he's happy to let you have the project, and make the arrangements for transferring ownership and moving the existing project elsewhere. > The next question, as you may have guessed, is how we go about > increasing our storage quota. The Chromium project is roughly around > 11Gb uncompressed. Our SVN still currently contains some of the > Chrome OS libraries, which we are in the process of weeding out. > We'll also be focusing our efforts primarily on Mac OS X builds, but > want to keep everything else to make it easy for others to port > Thorium to other platforms. > That may or may not be a problem. We have no problem increasing storage quota for legitimate open source projects (which is the case here), but 11GB may start hitting into other limitations of the platform. I'll consult internally and see if we can do this. If we can, I would ask you to be very careful to avoid checking binary files into the repository (especially things like nightly builds, releases, and/or continuous build outputs), since that would inflate the already huge repository even further and needlessly waste a lot of space. As another thought to reduce the overall weight of the repository: do you really need all the history you have, or would you be open to starting with a fresh history from your current HEAD? How much does a working copy at HEAD weigh currently? Again, this is just a suggestion, if we can accomodate your repository as it is currently, we'll be happy to. - Dave > > Thanks a ton for all your help! > > Jay Phelps > Mythology Labs > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Attached emails: (I'm not sure if this post is public, so I stared > out his email for his privacy.) > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > from alex alex <lev***...@big***.net> (retracted for his privacy) > to Jay Phelps <j...@*********.com> (retracted for my privacy) > date Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 8:12 AM > subject Re: Thorium at Google Code > hide details Apr 16 (2 days ago) > > Hi! > > Of course you can use the name of the project Thorium. > How can I rename a project that would release the name? > > > > 2010/4/7 Jay Phelps <j...@*********.com> > > Greetings! > > A group us developers are working on a fork of the Google Chromium > Project with some really unique and exciting features. To give homage > to the Chromium Project, we'd like to call the project Thorium (with > releases called Thor) and were wondering how partial to the Thorium > project name you were? > > We understand and respect if you want to keep it, just figured it > wouldn't hurt to ask! We're going to use code.google.com/ > thoriumproject/ otherwise. > > Thanks for considering. > > Jay Phelps > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Project Hosting on Google Code" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]<google-code-hosting%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/google-code-hosting?hl=en. > > -- Google Switzerland GmbH Brandschenkestrasse 110, Zurich, Switzerland 8002 Zurich Identifikationsnummer: CH-020.4.028.116-1 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Project Hosting on Google Code" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-code-hosting?hl=en.
