On the origins of github.com/D-Programming-Language

[Vladimir Panteleev via Digitalmars-d]

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.