create an org for omake

[bobzhang]

thanks for your hard work on omake, forks are not friendly for search github(there is no need to fork my branch since you did the most work), are you interested in making an omake-org to make it look more official

[gerdstolpmann]

Sure, how does this work?

[bobzhang]

@gerdstolpmann you can create a new organization https://help.github.com/articles/creating-a-new-organization-from-scratch/
I am not sure this will require paid account, but if it does, let me know since I have one

[bobzhang]

ping @gerdstolpmann ?

[gerdstolpmann]

Seems to be possible without paid account, if the repo is public. However, I currently don't see the benefits (e.g. teams), but rather disadvantages like that we lose the issue tracker. It is not that much in it - but still. So, what do we gain?

[rgrinberg]

I don't really see the need in an org either. Gerd is the de facto maintainer. I would remove the fact that it's a fork of Bob's repo as it does confuse people about which repository is the "upstream" one.

[bobzhang]

I know currently it might not have technical benefits.
But it has marketing value which is generally ignored by programmers but sometimes matter more than the tech itself: for beginner who does not know anything about omake, it is hard to sell since it looks like one man's project, just my 2 cents.
I am fine to remove the fork
You can create an org and create the repo, how do you loose the issue tracker?

[gerdstolpmann]

To my knowledge, you cannot move anything beyond core git data between repos. So, we cannot move the existing issues to the new org. They are not lost in the meaning that they are deleted, but they can effectively not be found by users not knowing that there is an older repo.

[alainfrisch]

It is possible to transfer ownership of a repo from a personal user account to an organization account; this preserves all non-Git data (issues, PRs) and GitHub redirects old URLs.

[gerdstolpmann]

Thanks, Alain, this was the missing piece of information. The org is called ocaml-omake (omake was already taken).

[alainfrisch]

Does anyone know how to remove the "forked from bobzhang/omake-fork" info?

[bobzhang]

I deleted my repo, it looks good now