Hi all!
If you've never created a repo or fork on the Wikimedia GitHub organization you can skip this email.
I know that some repos are developed on our GitHub org for reasons. What is developed on our GitHub org? How many things are actively being developed on GitHub org? I have no idea :)
I recently realized that there's not a great way to figure this out[0], but I've been able to narrow the scope a bit. Now I have a list of repos that are (a) in our GitHub org and (b) not in our Gerrit that I could use some help sorting through[1].
== Help, please ==
* Look through repos on The Listâ„¢[1]
If your repos are on the list, for each of your repos either:
* Archive or Delete it if it's no longer maintained or empty/useless, respectively (and remove them from the list on mw.org)[2]
Or:
* put a "{{tick}}" in the "Active" column on the list on mw.org
== Why==
In a more perfect future we could add the "mirror"[3] tag to repos on GitHub that are mirrored from Gerrit (with a link to their canonical repo locations; for example, gnome-deskop has this[4] and I'm very jealous).
Hopefully, this will help folks wanting to contribute -- either a Wikimedia GitHub repo is a mirror (in which case there's a link to Gerrit in the description) or it's actively being developed on GitHub.
<3 -- Tyler
[0]: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T237470#6407509 [1]: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Gerrit/GitHub#Projects_on_GitHub [2]: https://docs.github.com/en/github/creating-cloning-and-archiving-repositories/archiving-a-github-repository [3]: https://docs.github.com/en/github/getting-started-with-github/finding-ways-to-contribute-to-open-source-on-github#open-source-projects-with-mirrors-on-github [4]: https://github.com/GNOME/gnome-desktop
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