Migrate repos from nexB to aboutcode-org

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Short Description

Migrate FOSS projects under nexB organization on GitHub to aboutcode-org on GitHub.

How This Feature will help you/others

Transferring ownership of AboutCode projects on GitHub from nexB to aboutcode-org will demonstrate to the community our FOSS for FOSS commitment with the projects in a FOSS organization on GitHub instead of commercial entity.

This will facilitate displaying individual projects on the new aboutcode.org site. We will also revisit the plan to better index the docs for AboutCode projects: #129

Possible Solution/Implementation Details

GitHub published docs on how to transfer ownership between organizations: https://docs.github.com/en/repositories/creating-and-managing-repositories/transferring-a-repository

GitHub should create automatic redirects following their docs:
All links to the previous repository location are automatically redirected to the new location. When you use git clone, git fetch, or git push on a transferred repository, these commands will redirect to the new repository location or URL. However, to avoid confusion, we strongly recommend updating any existing local clones to point to the new repository URL.

There could be some issues with integrations and their tokens, including:

• PyPI deployment
• Azure DevOps
• GitHub Actions
• Read the Docs
• Slack
• Others?

There could be some issues with migrating permissions and collaborators in the new organization.

Example/Links if Any

More documentation on transferring a repo owned by your org: https://docs.github.com/en/repositories/creating-and-managing-repositories/transferring-a-repository#transferring-a-repository-owned-by-your-organization

Can you help with this Feature

I can help with some testing but this would require someone with advanced git (and git troubleshooting) skills.

Actual repos to migrate

This list is sorted so we start with a few smaller, less critical repos to validate the move process:

• Migrate https://github.com/nexB/matchcode-toolkit to https://github.com/aboutcode-org/ matchcode-toolkit#10
• Migrate https://github.com/nexB/aboutcode-toolkit to https://github.com/aboutcode-org/ aboutcode-toolkit#559

[mjherzog]

@pombredanne Do we have a punch list of the tasks for a repo migration? Check list of complications to check?

[mjherzog]

@chinyeungli Per Philippe, please plan to migrate the Fork repos to aboutcode-org. Philippe said that we need them in general to be co-located with the other projects and some of them have nexB updates.