Re: Reorganization of Git repository

Posted by Luigi Ballabio on Nov 13, 2015; 10:29am
URL: http://quantlib.414.s1.nabble.com/Reorganization-of-Git-repository-tp16962p17063.html

Hi Francois,

    we talked about that, and I'm not against it. We even tried making the project account on GitHub, just to find that http://github.com/quantlib was already taken, so in case we'll have to go for quantlib-official or something like it.

(Oh, and if you're the owner of the above project and you're reading this, we would appreciate a lot if you could rename it and free it. Not demanding, just asking. It would be a nice gesture.)

For the time being, though, the idea was more that of a federation of repos, so mine would be the main one for the core C++ library, Eric's would be the main one for the Excel addin and so on. We kind of wanted to de-bureaucratize the thing, as it were, so that if someone wrote another QuantLib module there would be no need to ask to be included in the "official" club.  I appreciate that it could be confusing, though, so we're open to feedback on this.

Later,

    Luigi

On Sat, Nov 7, 2015 at 10:16 AM Francois Botha <[hidden email]> wrote:

Hi,

Isn't this also a good time to create a quantlib organisation account on github and move the official repository to e.g. http://github.com/quantlib/quantlib ? Just a suggestion. I definitely don't want to detract from all the effort that Luigi has put in. It just seems the norm for projects to have their own organisation account on github these days.

regards

Francois Botha

On 26 October 2015 at 16:09, Luigi Ballabio <[hidden email]> wrote:

[ cross-posted to quantlib-users and quantlib-dev; apologies for any duplicates. ]

Hi all,

    I'm currently 3 or 4 issues away from setting up the 1.7 release.

Shortly after doing that, and in concert with the other maintainers, I'll reorganize the Git repository so that the current, monolithic one containing all the modules will be split into smaller ones, with one module per current directory; thus, there will be a repository for the core C++ library, one for the Excel addin and so on.

This will make it more convenient for the maintainers to manage the modules for which they have responsibility, and will also make it a lot easier to add new modules.  We had considered doing this when we migrated from subversion to git, and in hindsight we should have gone ahead at that time.

I'm aware this will cause inconveniences to the 500+ people that forked the repository on GitHub.  I am sorry for this, and I will try to minimize the pain: I'll migrate the open pull requests to the new repository, and I'll try to make some kind of guide to help those of you with local changes to move them to the new fork. In the meantime, your current forks are not going away.

Thanks for the understanding. I'll post a timeline as soon as I have one.

Luigi

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