[sakai2-tcc] Github: OAE transfers "sakaiproject" account to Sakai and the CLE

[Anthony Whyte]

Agreed.  We don't need to jump ahead of ourselves here, especially considering that the TCC as a group remains divided on moving to Git and using Github to host or mirror our project repos [1].  My immediate goal was simply to secure an account that is branded Sakai but being used by our OAE colleagues who have chosen to abandon the Sakai brand in favor of Apereo OAE.  What we do with the account going forward remains an open question for some on the TCC.

I think maintaining a "sakaiproject" account preferable to lumping all projects under an Apereo organization account.  As Chuck noted it highlights our project name front-and-center.  It also provides what might be termed a thematic unity to the cle-* repos we might create under github.com/sakaiproject, a unity easily lost if our repos get lumped together with uPortal, CAS, Bedework, etc. under an Apereo organization.

Yet, what matters at this point is that the Sakai Project now controls the github.com/sakaiproject account and no one else. 

Anth


On Jun 11, 2013, at 10:33 PM, Charles Severance wrote:

> It is key to keep the Sakai/uPortal/CAS brands front-and-center for the short term and even medium term.   The primary opposition to the merger was the feeling that the well-known "Sakai" brand would become the Apereo CLE and have no recognition at all - effectively starting over with the brand.
> 
> There might one day be an git.apereo.org that is made available to projects - but our project name would always have sakai front-and-center to leverage the decade of brand investment.
> 
> It will be natural for new projects to call themselves with the prefix - but Sakai, uPortal, CAS, Bedework will not likely add the "Apereo" as prefix until t feels like a natural thing - much like we call Derby "Derby" not "Apache Derby" - but incubator projects are more likely to call themselves Apache blah.
> 
> /Chuck
> 
> On Jun 11, 2013, at 10:00 PM, Seth Theriault wrote:
> 
>> On Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at 9:18 PM, Steve Swinsburg
>> <steve.swinsburg at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> Is there a reason we dont just have an Apereo organisation and have the all
>>> projects underneath that? Sakai CLE is an Apereo project after all.
>> 
>> I think this is one of those "big" Apereo infrastructure questions
>> that people will be working on in the months to come. No need to rush
>> into anything as yet.
>> 
>> Seth
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