Transfer repository ownership to SciTools

[bjlittle]

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It's early days for geovista, which has just been born 🥳

The current plan is to bootstrap geovista here with an minimal stable core under ownership of https://github.com/bjlittle, before then transferring ownership of the repository to the https://github.com/SciTools organisation.

At the moment SciTools is slowly undergoing re-licensing from LGPL to BSD 3-Clause, and a refresh of its CLA. After this work is completed, and when geovista is "ready" it will be migrated to SciTools to live alongside its more mature and well-behaved sister cartopy.

More importantly, once geovista is under SciTools ownership, it can then be maintained by its awesome team of core developers 😄

[trexfeathers]

Looking forward to this! Do you think we could have a checklist in the main issue body of what would make GeoVista "ready"? Should make it easier for us to hold ourselves to account.

[bjlittle]

Looking forward to this! Do you think we could have a checklist in the main issue body of what would make GeoVista "ready"? Should make it easier for us to hold ourselves to account.

@trexfeathers Totally agree.

I've have a ponder, and try to figure out the MVP for "readiness" to migrate. Fleshing that out to add realy clarity will give us something concrete to aim for, which is always a winner.

Thanks!

[trexfeathers]

Bump

[bjlittle]

@trexfeathers Thinking on this, I'm not going to create an exhaustive list here. I feel that would be a bit counter-productive. Also, at the moment the line in the sand is quite fluid, and I'm totally okay with that (for now).

However, I am using the label in the this GH project to capture my current thinking on what I want to deliver.

Also, I don't see the point in transferring ownership too soon, otherwise I can't be as nimble, reactive and productive as I am at the moment. Dunno, tough call.

Ultimately, I think I'm relying on the fact that the decision of "when" will eventually become "clear", and I'm in no particular rush to force that decision along atm.

[bjlittle]

@trexfeathers However, do keep nudging me. That should keep things healthy 😉

It's important that the migration happens 👍

[trexfeathers]

This is probably a "perfect is the enemy of the good" situation. We have to make sure we recognise when GeoVista has passed the "good" threshold, and resist waiting for "perfect".

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