Move repository to go-flutter-desktop organisation

[pchampio]

As I'm less and less maintaining this repository due to my studies, it would be better to move it to a "@flutter-desktop" "@go-flutter-desktop" organization.

Having 1,500+ stargazer only meant one thing: The community is in the needs.
Sadly I cannot invest enough time into the project, and it's time for me to admit that this side project of mine has gained too much interest that I can't assume.

Having an organization as the owner would allow Collaborator like @GeertJohan, to contribute without have to deal with me.

As per Github documentation, a transfer automatically redirects links, resources, and etc as opposed to a fork which does none of those things.

I am planning to transfer the repo in the next few days. If you have anything to say, please comment!

Pierre.

[GeertJohan]

Hi all, it's great to be part of this project! Thanks @Drakirus for the trust. Lets make this even more awesome than it already is!

We want the movement to be as little hindrance for existing users as possible, but at the same time rename some packages and exported functions/types that are currently causing confusion for developers. This involves breaking changes, but it's important to us that these breaking changes may be applied in existing projects whenever it's convenient for their maintainers.

The movement plan so far, open for debate:

1. Move this repo to flutter-desktop/go-flutter, using the transfer feature as linked above.
2. Fork from flutter-desktop/go-flutter back to Drakirus/go-flutter-desktop-embedder, this way the existing repo stays compatible and unchanged for existing users. It doesn't get any more updates though.
3. Add a commit to Drakirus/go-flutter-desktop-embedder which adds a deprecation warning to the README, and a fmt.Println("Warning: go-flutter-desktop-embedder has been moved, please read <link to more info>") into (*flutter.EngineOpenGL).Run(..). This notifies users that just go get -u without visiting the repo page / README.
4. Add a commit to flutter-desktop/go-flutter with the (breaking) renames of packages. Upgrading will be simple, but necessary. An upgrade guide will be provided.

Please let us know if you have any objections or feedback on this plan. Thanks!

[stuartmorgan-g]

it would be better to move it to a "@flutter-desktop" organization.

Have you considered a less generic name? With the in-progress migration of flutter-desktop-embedding's implementations to flutter/engine, there are now desktop implementations that are part of the Flutter project. Creating an organization called "flutter-desktop" that's not part of Flutter and unrelated to Flutter's desktop implementations seems potentially very confusing.

(It also seems a bit odd to not include "go" in the name unless you expect it to take over ownership of other projects. E.g., flutter-rs seems to be much the same as this project except in Rust rather than Go.)

[pchampio]

Our plan was to move the repo to flutter-desktop/go-flutter.
Having a "@flutter-desktop" organization might confuse some people.
I hadn't thought about it.

@stuartmorgan is go-flutter-desktop/flutter a better name ?
I don't want to include "go" in the organization AND repo name.

Thanks for the feedback!

[GeertJohan]

The repo name flutter might be confusing as well, looks as if it is a fork of the flutter/flutter repo.

[GeertJohan]

@stuartmorgan I wasn't aware of flutter-desktop-embedding being merged into flutter/engine? I thought the engine project was embedder-agnostic? How will that work? Will the flutter tool provide build commands for windows, macos, linux?

[stuartmorgan-g]

@stuartmorgan is go-flutter-desktop/flutter a better name ?

I think go-flutter-desktop as an organization name is much less likely to cause confusion, certainly.

I thought the engine project was embedder-agnostic?

The embedding API is embedder agnostic, not the project. The repository is where the Android and iOS Flutter shells lived already, so is definitely not implementation agnostic.

How will that work?

The embedding API and the shell will be different targets. I don't want to hijack this thread though, so if you are interested in more details the FDE mailing list is probably a better place.

[GeertJohan]

@stuartmorgan Just read up on the mailinglist. Congratulations with the promotion of FDE into flutter/engine! And thanks for the feedback, we'll go with go-flutter-desktop.

[pchampio]

Crazy stuff is happening fast!
@stuartmorgan Thanks for the feedback and the hard work you've put into FDE, this experiment would not have existed without you.

[GeertJohan]

The move has been completed.
https://github.com/go-flutter-desktop/go-flutter/wiki/Package-has-moved-to-an-organization