On Thursday, 14 April 2016 at 19:40:25 UTC, Seb wrote:
> On Tuesday, 12 April 2016 at 17:35:49 UTC, Vladimir Panteleev

> As mentioned I wrote to the Github support about the "dlang" namespace:
>
>> I took a look at the account in question [dlang], and it doesn't appear
>> that it is dormant (not all activity on GitHub is public).
>> With that in mind, there would be no way for us to transfer
>> this name to you without permission from the owner of it.

Aw. How are we doing on that front (contacting Daniel Lang)?

> However I still have a bright message for you:
>
>> It looks as though the **d-lang** account you found is being squatted.
>> I've gone ahead and released this username now, so you'll be able to
>> create an organization with that username now.
>> You'll want to grab that username quickly — it's available first-come,
>> first-served. Let me if there's anything else I can do to help!

Great!

> Did that - that's why a couple of guys got an invitation.
> So if we want to move to "d-lang", it is as easy as:
>
> 1) Delete the reserved "d-lang" namespace
> 2) Press on rename at D-Programming-Language
> 3) Recreate D-Programming-Language (and _avoid_ creating repos here)

What about API calls? Wouldn't want to break the autotester.

> @Cybershadow in case of a positive decision, do you want to be the "trigger guy"?

I don't have the necessary privileges on https://github.com/D-Programming-Language. Andrei would probably want to do this.

On Thursday, 14 April 2016 at 19:48:37 UTC, Vladimir Panteleev wrote:
> Aw. How are we doing on that front (contacting Daniel Lang)?

No reply :/

Maybe someone knows him via LinkedIn and wants to drop him a friendly message?
https://www.linkedin.com/in/daniellangnet

> What about API calls? Wouldn't want to break the autotester.

Yep even that:

https://developer.github.com/changes/2015-04-17-preview-repository-redirects/
https://developer.github.com/changes/2015-07-21-automatic-redirects-for-renamed-repositories/

On Thursday, 14 April 2016 at 20:00:14 UTC, Seb wrote:
> On Thursday, 14 April 2016 at 19:48:37 UTC, Vladimir Panteleev wrote:
>> Aw. How are we doing on that front (contacting Daniel Lang)?
>
> No reply :/
>
> Maybe someone knows him via LinkedIn and wants to drop him a friendly message?
> https://www.linkedin.com/in/daniellangnet

3rd-degree connection, so I have to go through two people to reach him. Here goes nothing...

>> What about API calls? Wouldn't want to break the autotester.
>
> Yep even that:
>
> https://developer.github.com/changes/2015-04-17-preview-repository-redirects/
> https://developer.github.com/changes/2015-07-21-automatic-redirects-for-renamed-repositories/

Hopefully our API clients can handle HTTP redirects, then.

On Thursday, 14 April 2016 at 20:10:30 UTC, Vladimir Panteleev wrote:
> On Thursday, 14 April 2016 at 20:00:14 UTC, Seb wrote:
>> On Thursday, 14 April 2016 at 19:48:37 UTC, Vladimir Panteleev wrote:
>>> Aw. How are we doing on that front (contacting Daniel Lang)?
>>
>> No reply :/
>>
>> Maybe someone knows him via LinkedIn and wants to drop him a friendly message?
>> https://www.linkedin.com/in/daniellangnet
>
> 3rd-degree connection, so I have to go through two people to reach him. Here goes nothing...

I tried a different way - maybe this works:
https://twitter.com/MrGreenify/status/720705303591972864

(I guess retweeting doesn't hurt ...)

>>> What about API calls? Wouldn't want to break the autotester.
>>
>> Yep even that:
>>
>> https://developer.github.com/changes/2015-04-17-preview-repository-redirects/
>> https://developer.github.com/changes/2015-07-21-automatic-redirects-for-renamed-repositories/
>
> Hopefully our API clients can handle HTTP redirects, then.

If you are worried you can also migrate repowise, but then you would have to recreate all groups. Alternatively we can create a dummy account, rename it and see whether the clients continue to work fine.

On Thursday, 14 April 2016 at 20:14:20 UTC, Seb wrote:
> On Thursday, 14 April 2016 at 20:10:30 UTC, Vladimir Panteleev wrote:
>> On Thursday, 14 April 2016 at 20:00:14 UTC, Seb wrote:
>>> On Thursday, 14 April 2016 at 19:48:37 UTC, Vladimir Panteleev wrote:
>>>> Aw. How are we doing on that front (contacting Daniel Lang)?
>>>
>>> No reply :/
>>>
>>> Maybe someone knows him via LinkedIn and wants to drop him a friendly message?
>>> https://www.linkedin.com/in/daniellangnet
>>
>> 3rd-degree connection, so I have to go through two people to reach him. Here goes nothing...
>
> I tried a different way - maybe this works:
> https://twitter.com/MrGreenify/status/720705303591972864
>
> (I guess retweeting doesn't hurt ...)
>

Update: great news! Daniel Lang donated "dlang" to us.

https://twitter.com/MrGreenify/status/720705303591972864

@Walter, Andrei, CyberShadow, schveiguy, braddr - you should have gotten invitations.

On 4/14/2016 12:40 PM, Seb wrote:
> [...]

Wouldn't it be easier to have d-lang redirect to d-programming-language?

On Thursday, 14 April 2016 at 21:55:36 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> On 4/14/2016 12:40 PM, Seb wrote:
>> [...]
>
> Wouldn't it be easier to have d-lang redirect to d-programming-language?

Github doesn't support that directly - only for renames, besides the point is that new urls become a lot shorter and similar to dlang.org like github.com/dlang/dmd. Short names are trendy and young people like me love such names :)
Btw we now have "dlang" reserved.

On Thursday, 14 April 2016 at 21:59:31 UTC, Seb wrote:
> On Thursday, 14 April 2016 at 21:55:36 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
>> On 4/14/2016 12:40 PM, Seb wrote:
>>> [...]
>>
>> Wouldn't it be easier to have d-lang redirect to d-programming-language?
>
> Github doesn't support that directly - only for renames, besides the point is that new urls become a lot shorter and similar to dlang.org like github.com/dlang/dmd. Short names are trendy and young people like me love such names :)
> Btw we now have "dlang" reserved.

Theoretically... if we move to dlang and back... but, that's all the disadvantages with neither the advantages. Unless GitHub support gets involved, but they've probably been bothered enough by us already.

On 4/14/2016 2:59 PM, Seb wrote:
> On Thursday, 14 April 2016 at 21:55:36 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
>> On 4/14/2016 12:40 PM, Seb wrote:
>>> [...]
>>
>> Wouldn't it be easier to have d-lang redirect to d-programming-language?
>
> Github doesn't support that directly - only for renames, besides the point is
> that new urls become a lot shorter and similar to dlang.org like
> github.com/dlang/dmd. Short names are trendy and young people like me love such
> names :)

I don't get it. If D-Programming-Language can redirect to dlang, then the reverse should be easy (and nothing else will have to change).


> Btw we now have "dlang" reserved.

Nice work getting that! I prefer dlang to d-lang.

On Thursday, 14 April 2016 at 22:07:18 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> On 4/14/2016 2:59 PM, Seb wrote:
>> On Thursday, 14 April 2016 at 21:55:36 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
>>> On 4/14/2016 12:40 PM, Seb wrote:
>>>> [...]
>>>
>>> Wouldn't it be easier to have d-lang redirect to d-programming-language?
>>
>> Github doesn't support that directly - only for renames, besides the point is
>> that new urls become a lot shorter and similar to dlang.org like
>> github.com/dlang/dmd. Short names are trendy and young people like me love such
>> names :)
>
> I don't get it. If D-Programming-Language can redirect to dlang, then the reverse should be easy (and nothing else will have to change).

The entire idea was to move forward to dlang and thanks to github redirects (nearly) nothing has to change ;-)