Re: Canonical pngcheck repo at github.com/pnggroup

I may need a bit of hand-holding here. If I try to transfer ownership I 
get a warning

 > The repository *pngcheck* already exists on this account.

Should I rename it first?

I also tried to transfer over the issues one by one, but that didn't 
work either.

On 2025-02-06 12:26, Cosmin Truta wrote:
>
> With the clarification that I still intend to force-push commits until 
> the public announcement, I would like to ask Chris if he would like to 
> transfer his repo from his account (github.com/svgeesus/pngcheck 
> <http://github.com/svgeesus/pngcheck>) over to pnggroup. (I did the 
> same with github.com/glennrp/libpng <http://github.com/glennrp/libpng> 
> BTW.) Doing so wouldn't be strictly necessary, but it will bring forth 
> the nice-to-have history of recent development.
>
> (Chris, you should have admin permissions to github..com/pnggroup 
> <http://github.com/pnggroup>, and you should be able to rename 
> github.com/pnggroup/pngcheck <http://github.com/pnggroup/pngcheck> or 
> delete it altogether before you transfer your own, but if you can't do 
> it for any reason, please let me know. Everything at 
> github.com/pnggroup/pngcheck <http://github.com/pnggroup/pngcheck> is 
> mirrored at github.com/ctruta/pngcheck 
> <http://github.com/ctruta/pngcheck>, so, no worries about losing stuff.)

-- 
Chris Lilley
@svgeesus
Technical Director @ W3C
W3C Strategy Team, Core Web Design
W3C Architecture & Technology Team, Core Web & Media

Received on Thursday, 6 February 2025 18:42:38 UTC