[Pandas-dev] Our own GitHub organization?

[Wes McKinney]

According to GitHub, the pandas account is showing activity that is
not publicly visible. I've contacted the user twice in an effort to
start a dialog but GitHub is very strict about protecting users'
privacy.

We could do something like @pandas-org for the time being, and hope
that at some point we are able to contact the @pandas user (or they
become inactive).

- Wes

On Tue, Aug 23, 2016 at 11:49 AM, Stephan Hoyer <shoyer at gmail.com> wrote:
> Did you have any luck going through GitHub's process for reclaiming an
> unused name? You don't necessarily need to contact the account owner for
> this.
> https://help.github.com/articles/name-squatting-policy/
>
> I'm +1 for switching to a dedicated pandas org. GitHub's redirects do make
> this quite smooth.
>
> The main reason I switched xarray to pydata (from the separate xray org) is
> because I didn't think I would be successful claiming xarray, which appears
> to be in active use.
>
> On Tue, Aug 23, 2016 at 11:40 AM, Wes McKinney <wesmckinn at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> We've occasionally discussed moving pandas and associated repos to a
>> dedicated GitHub organization.
>>
>> Some arguments for moving to our own org:
>>
>> - More clear what repositories are part of the "pandas" umbrella (we
>> can potentially formalize this in the pandas-governance repo)
>>
>> - Dedicated capacity from CI services
>>
>> - Easier for us to more clearly develop our own open source project
>> branding independent from PyData (which has increasingly primarily
>> become a conference / meetup brand)
>>
>> While I haven't had any success contacting the owner of
>> github.com/pandas, if we can pick a suitable org name we might
>> consider it. GitHub's route forwarding (including git remotes) makes
>> org changes pretty painless these days
>>
>> Thoughts?
>>
>> - Wes
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