Organization account?

[edsu]

pymarc is the result of many people collaborating, but on the surface it appears to belong to @edsu.

Would it be useful to move the repository to an organization account? Some initial discussion led to the idea of creating a pymarc account, but unfortunately this name is already taken.

Would it be an improvement to move the repository to the code4lib organization? Please answer with a thumbs up/down on this issue. Also if you have alternate ideas/suggestions please leave a comment.

[dbs]

Would we be using teams to manage access to the pymarc repo within the code4lib organization?

[edsu]

@dbs yes, I think that would be appropriate right? If people are supportive of the move I think we should move over the existing team and add new people who have contributed in the past and would like to participate?

[edsu]

Since pymarc/pymarc isn't available @dbs suggested (over in IRC) that maybe moving to gitlab would be a good idea. I must admit I was kinda wondering if now might be a good time to do that, but I didn't want to throw too many things in the air.

[edsu]

After some more ruminating about this, and chitchat in #code4lib IRC I think we're going to press the eject button on GitHub and move to a GitLab group.

Before I do the import, if you would like your identity on tickets, PRs, commits to show up linked to your identity please go ahead and create an account on gitlab.com and make sure your email address is set the same as it is on github.com (at least for the initial import).

[termim]

Since pymarc/pymarc isn't available @dbs suggested (over in IRC) that maybe moving to

What about pymarc21? It seems available.

[edsu]

There are actually other reasons than the namespace for moving to GitLab the biggest of which is that it's an opensource project that aligns with the values that pymarc has been developed with. Also, the decentralized approach where there isn't one specific company (e.g. Microsoft) who is on the hook to sustain the project. There can be, and are, many Gitlab instances and that is a good thing.

[edsu]

https://gitlab.com/pymarc/pymarc is live!