Re: A new GitHub organization for web-platform-tests

One aspect of WPT that I know maintainers have long resigned themselves
to is
the directory structure. The project defines test material at the top level,
right alongside metadata, documentation, and infrastructure code. This
makes it
difficult for folks to orient themselves. It also increases the
complexity of
tooling since it must special-case certain files and folders when
discovering
tests.

I think James is right that GitHub will smooth the transition for basic
fetch/push operations. But to the extent that some intervention is required,
this could be a good opportunity to ask consumers to also accommodate an
improvement to the project structure. That's easy for me to say, though, I'm
not a consumer. If this is too much churn, I'd love to hear that feedback
rather than just politely assume as much.

Philip: do you see the value in such a change? While you're conferring with
folks about renaming the repository, would you mind also asking about this?


On 04/03/2018 06:39 AM, James Graham wrote:
> On 03/04/2018 10:47, Philip Jägenstedt wrote:
>> Sounds like there aren't any obvious org names that are better than
>> https://github.com/web-platform-tests, so let's say that plan A is
>> https://github.com/web-platform-tests/wpt.
>>
>> The rename itself is easy and making sure that things don't break in the
>> browser repos that import/export WPT is the hard part. I'll ask around
>> about what needs to be done in advance, come up with a transition
>> plan, and
>> then send it out to this list for review.
>
>
> I think as long as we move the repository in the GitHub UI GitHub sets
> ups redirects, so I'm mildly confident it will work without any
> changes. There could be some issues around hooks, and permissions, and
> so on that I haven't considered, however.
>