Github user repos?

[David Evans]

On 11/2/16 3:39 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
> 
>> On Nov 1, 2016, at 3:49 PM, David Evans <devans at macports.org> wrote:
>>
>> On 11/1/16 1:21 PM, Rainer Müller wrote:
>>> On 2016-11-01 21:10, David Evans wrote:
>>>> I see that some github user repos have been created while others (like mine ;-) ) have not.  Is this an ongoing process
>>>> that's going to take a while or is there some action that the user needs to take and get his repo created?
>>>
>>> Yours is already there:
>>>
>>> https://github.com/macports/macports-user-devans
>>>
>>> GitHub only show the most recently modified repositories on the
>>> organization page. You need to use the search box on top of the list of
>>> repositories to find it.
>>>
>>>> BTW, I note that at least one of those already created belongs to a maintainer who has not been with us for quite a
>>>> while (nox).
>>>
>>> The plan is to eventually remove them, if users do not claim them.
>>>
>>>> Maybe they should be done on a per request basis to avoid converting abandoned user space.
>>>
>>> All of our Subversion history was converted and each commit moved to the
>>> appropriate Git repository. There is no extra work involved with this.
>>>
>>> Rainer
>>>
>>
>> Thanks, Rainer.  I thought I had probably missed something.  As they say the Navy, "There's always 10% that don't get
>> the word."
>>
>> I see from the previous reply that there is some feeling that these repos should be moved from the MacPorts
>> organizational account to the user's own account.  Or can they stay where they are indefinitely as long as
>> they are active?
> 
> Active user repos should be moved to that user's personal GitHub account and used or refactored there.
> 
> Contrary to Rainer's statement above, my plan was to leave unclaimed old user repo in the macports org indefinitely. Deleting them implies they contain no useful information; having not examined them, I'm not in a position to make that determination.

Thanks for the clarification.

I've moved (forked) mine to my personal account and the original has been deleted at my request.

Dave