* Brian Stinson: > On Tue, Aug 31, 2021, at 12:19, Florian Weimer wrote: >> * Brian Stinson: >> >> > There is a ton of tooling that relies on the repo naming that we have >> > right now, and maintainers are actively working against the naming >> > conventions we have. Itmakes sense to have a convention for the very >> > very few packages affected here, but we shouldn't apply that to the >> > entirety of dist-git just because of infra problems with a handful of >> > package names. >> >> The bulk rename would force everyone to get their tooling in order. I'm >> pretty sure it's the only way to fix the “tree” problem everywhere. >> Otherwise, people say “I'll deal with that manually” or “we're just >> going to add that special case”. But in too many cases, neither >> happens, and it just remains unfixed indefintely. And never get out of >> a bad state. >> >> Thanks, >> Florian >> > > "force everyone to get their tooling in order" and disrupt hundreds of > folks doing regular development for how long? Gitlab has a repository aliasing mechanism. It could be a gradual transition for existing packages. Thanks, Florian