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Move ViewComponent to its own org #1424
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I’d like to propose that we move ViewComponent to its own organization, viewcomponent for the following reasons:
- So that ViewComponent’s identity can grow beyond the scope of just being a GitHub project. ViewComponent has > 165 contributors from across the industry, not just GitHub employees.
- So that we can formally extend ownership of the project to non-GitHub members of the community. This is currently not allowed under our organization policies.
- Allow for other repos to be added to the project. For example, I’d be interested in moving VC::Form, Lookbook, demo repo and others into this proposed org.
What do y’all think?
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finalburn commentedon Jul 20, 2022
All for it! I suppose it does beg the question of whether the gem gets renamed to
viewcomponenttoo, but I think that's something we'd need to do with a major release... It's worth thinking through the consequences for developers there.Part of me wonders if there'd be a way to have Dependabot pick up on the rename. That'd give it a good signal boost.
Move ViewComponent to separate GitHub organization.
Move ViewComponent to separate GitHub organization (#1496)
finalburn commentedon Jan 18, 2023
Was this idea dropped, or is it still something we plan to do for v3?
joelhawksley commentedon Jan 18, 2023
@boardfish I haven't given it any further thought. What do you think?
finalburn commentedon Jan 18, 2023
I guess there are two sides to it – from the perspective of it not being the same as the org name, it's unintuitive. But from the perspective of it being the snake-case form of the constant name, much like
active_support, for example, it is. There's also the fear that anyone using ViewComponent more passively might miss updates through Dependabot for a good while.I feel like there might've been something else swaying me towards the idea at the time, but I think on the above basis, it seems sound to drop it.
Spone commentedon Jan 18, 2023
I agree, let's stick with
view_component👍Move ViewComponent to separate GitHub organization (ViewComponent#1496)
Move ViewComponent to separate GitHub organization (ViewComponent#1496)