Transfer repositories & NPM packages from mongodb-js to electron-userland

[malept]

Following on conversation from electron-userland/electron-installer-dmg#25 (comment):

@MarshallOfSound is interested in moving electron-installer-dmg and electron-squirrel-startup over, as they're used in Electron Forge.

I'm kind of interested in electron-installer-zip since there's a link to it in the Electron Packager "related" section and it needs some updates (zip-folder has issues, as we've found out in Forge)

CC: @imlucas @zeke

[zeke]

Sounds like a great idea. 👍

I wonder what we should do about npm ownership. 🤔

One way to handle it:

1. create electron-userland-bot account on npm
2. create @electron-userland-bot account on GitHub
3. npm owner add electron-userland-bot
4. set up semantic-release

This way releases would happen automatically, no matter who's landing pull requests.

[malept]

I wonder what we should do about npm ownership.

There's an electron-userland team in NPM that we should add more of the -userland admins (and -userland packages) to. Unfortunately only the package creator can move it, it seems. ETA: I just checked and apparently that restriction is now gone.

[zeke]

There's an electron-userland team in NPM

Cool. Can you add me to it?

[malept]

@zeke added.

[imlucas]

This is great :) A few 🤔:

1. Guessing we move these packages over from mongodb-js npm org to electron-userland?

2. Repos: transfer to electron-userland gh org?

3. For the electron-* packages not listed above but are dependencies of those listed: should we also transfer these over so you all can refactor them out, deprecate, and move to archive?

For more context: these were all created to get https://compass.mongodb.com/ off the ground by going through atom build scripts and breaking them out into sep modules w strong testing. @durran is in Berlin and @rueckstiess is in Sydney so if I broke the build, they’d be stuck for 1 day or more until I could patch.

Longer term: https://www.github.com/mongodb-js/hadron-build is ~equivalent to forge. So, might make sense for us to move to forge @durran

The hadron-* projects might be a bit higher level for electron-userland but curious to discuss and I haven’t had ☕️ yet. Hadron provides the groundwork for building plugin based electron apps like atom, compass, and nylas. Would that be out of scope for electron-userland? IMO, hadron is incomplete today in terms of its aspirations. It would be sweet to get more community involvement here so it can be completed and enable others to build plugin based electron apps.

cc @aydrian @durran @rueckstiess @mrlynn

[zeke]

☝️ that all sounds good to me, @imlucas

[MarshallOfSound]

@imlucas

1. 👍

2. 👍

3. Do we have a list of these modules, I wasn't aware they had nested electron-* deps 😄 But yeah we'll probably take them on board and then refactor them out if they aren't worth the maintenance cost.

RE hadron-build yeah let us know if electron-forge is missing anything major for you to use it, it appears to be basically semantically equivalent. Especially with v6 round the corner.

RE the hadron-* plugin based stuff that's definitely a discussion I'd like to have at some point, for instance I spent a few months last year some time working on electron-ionizer which I think had more a less the same goals (making plugin based Electron apps easier to build).

But yeah, 1, 2 and 3 should definitely be easy to sort out 👍

[MarshallOfSound]

cc @imlucas Can we move forward with this plan?

[zeke]

Plan looks good to me. Let me know if you need my help for any of it.

[durran]

I’ll get on this tomorrow.

[durran]

Just as a heads up here. I need temporary admin permissions in the electron-userland org (at least repo creation) to be able to transfer the repos over on Github. Once the transfer is complete please feel free to revoke my permissions.

The repos I am going to transfer are:

https://github.com/mongodb-js/electron-installer-squirrel-windows
https://github.com/mongodb-js/electron-installer-zip
https://github.com/mongodb-js/electron-installer-dmg

Please let me know if there are others I should include as well.

[malept]

@durran invite sent.

[MarshallOfSound]

@durran Can you also add @malept and myself to the modules on NPM 👍

[durran]

Those 3 I noted are now transferred. I'll do the npm access next.