KaTeX github organization

[kevinbarabash]

After recent discussions of creating a new repo dedicated to font creation, https://github.com/Khan/KaTeX/pull/632#issuecomment-323603003, I decided to create a github organization for KaTeX.

I was thinking we would start out with the following repos:

• KaTeX.github.io (public website)
• KaTeX (main project repo)
• KaTeX-fonts (a stripped down version of https://github.com/Khan/MathJax-dev that only contains what we need to generate our fonts along with the MathJaxFonts docker from KaTeX)

To get started we'd do the following:

• transfer ownership of this repo and https://github.com/Khan/MathJax-dev to the KaTeX org
• invite all current contributors with push access to the KaTeX org
• create new repos above as needed

This is kind of a big deal so I'd love to get everyone's thoughts and concerns before proceeding further.

[edemaine]

I'm still new to Github organizations, but this sounds fine to me. I take it that all issues etc. get preserved by the move, which is nice. The main change is that the git repo changes URL? A potential worry is that someone has KaTeX's git link hard-coded (e.g. via NPM -- though not sure if this works), and they need to update. But that's the price of living on the bleeding edge, I suppose...

[kevinbarabash]

All of the issues will be preserved with the move. We'll probably want to create a Khan/KaTeX fork from KaTeX/KaTeX after the move that way if someone does have something hardcoded it will still work. We should probably have a message that top of the Khan/KaTeX README.md pointing people to KaTeX/KaTeX. There is link from https://www.npmjs.com/package/katex to Khan/KaTeX but we should be able to update that. We'll need to update gitter as well.

[edemaine]

Nice idea to fork/link. The NPM link comes from package.js, so if we update that and do another npm publish (presumably part of the release script), then we'll be all set.

[xsznix]

Based on previous experience, the fork/link shouldn't actually be necessary because GH automatically redirects old repo URLs to the new one: https://help.github.com/articles/about-repository-transfers/

[kevinbarabash]

Update: we now have https://github.com/KaTeX. The main repo will continue to live at Khan/KaTeX for the time being though.

[kevinbarabash]

This repo has been transferred to the KaTeX Github organization.

[ylemkimon]

@kevinbarabash I'm excited to see the new organization is in action!

It seems a Gitter chat room should be manually created and Greenkeeper may not work. Also the screenshotter GitHub app need to be reinstalled.

[kevinbarabash]

We'll also have to update the badges in the README.