amiaopensource/governance

Transferring repo to amiaopensource

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nkrabben commented

I'd like to transfer https://github.com/nkrabben/av-python-carpentry/ to this org as a more appropriate home than my personal repo. Ben and I would still be maintainers.

However, I can't transfer it because I don't have permission to create repos here. Any suggested ways to work around this?

privatezero commented

I believe that you can just go ahead and initiate the transfer through the settings tab. That should ping us and we can then accept the transfer and re-add you both as maintainers on this end.

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nkrabben commented

I get an error message
"You don’t have the permission to create public repositories on amiaopensource"

privatezero commented

Ahh in diving deeper into the Github docs, yes that does seem to be a limitation. I'll elevate you for the transfer!

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privatezero commented

Oh hah! Looks like elevation shouldn't be required - looks like you weren't a member. Invitation sent! I believe as a member you should have the access you need to create a repo. If it turns out otherwise, we can fix that!

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todrobbins commented

A beautiful exchange!

nkrabben commented

Phew, looks like it's all working now. https://amiaopensource.github.io/av-python-carpentry/

For anyone doing this in the future, transfer is easy. Redirecting any gh-pages links is much harder.

  1. Create a repo for the user/project named user/project.github.io
  2. Add the jekyll-redirect-from gem to the configuration
  3. Create a redirect template
  4. Create a subdirectory for the old github.io url in the repo
  5. Add markdown pages for each page using the template
  6. Add a link to the new location on your 404 just in case

There's probably a better way of doing, I hope.

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privatezero commented

Rad! Thank you! Let us know if any permissions issues crop up and we'll get ya sorted!

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