[ImageJ-devel] [fiji-devel] Re: Removing obsolete Bio-Formats GitHub forks

Curtis Rueden ctrueden at wisc.edu
Wed Oct 23 12:57:25 CDT 2013


Hi Dscho,

> I guess you're right and it is not really worth preserving because all
> of our changes basically made it back into the 'master' branch
> somehow.

OK, sounds good. The imagej/bioformats and fiji/bioformats repositories
have been deleted.

Thanks,
Curtis


On Fri, Oct 18, 2013 at 3:53 PM, Johannes Schindelin <
Johannes.Schindelin at gmx.de> wrote:

> Hi Curtis,
>
> On Fri, 18 Oct 2013, Curtis Rueden wrote:
>
> > > So by removing the topic branches, we also removed the documentation
> > > from what source we used to build certain revisions of our bio-formats
> > > submodule.
> >
> > If you think this is a problem, I am fine with reinstating the branches.
> > I still have the local branch pointers and can easily push them back if
> > that's what you want.
> >
> > Personally I just thought the benefits of simplification outweighed
> > preserving such (minor) history. My thinking is that many more people
> will
> > be looking at the list of repos in those namespaces and potentially
> > wondering why we keep a fork of the project, versus the likely extremely
> > small number (potentially zero) of developers digging through the git
> > history and cross-checking against the given links, etc.
>
> I guess you're right and it is not really worth preserving because all of
> our changes basically made it back into the 'master' branch somehow.
>
> Ciao,
> Dscho
>
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