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[Guewen Baconnier <guewen.baconnier@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 07/01/2014 03:13 PM, Daniel Reis wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> Current lp2git migration steps
> <https://github.com/OCA/maintainers-tools/wiki/Migration-Launchpad-%E2%86%92-GitHub#migration-steps>
> tell you to rename unported modules with a suffix "_unported".
> This was a strategy Sandy found to have TravisCI and Flake8 ignore them,
> and Guewen included that in the migration docs, and I believe it already
> been adopted in some of the migrations to GitHub.
> 
> On the other hand, last November we also discussed here
> <https://lists.launchpad.net/openerp-community/msg04016.html> a
> convention to easily identify unported modules.
> I made the proposal to use a subdirectory, since I was working on a
> project where most modules were unported and often it wasn't easy to
> navigate around.
> We eventually agreed that a "__unported__" subdirectory could be used
> for that.
> I believe at the time most people didn't see that a necessity, so in
> practice it was not widely used.
> 
> My problem is that the new convention does not solve the initial
> problem: uncluttering repo root  from unported modules.
> And I believe the subdirectory approach is also capable to do what's
> needed for TravisCI and Flake8.
> 
> So, my opinion is that we shoudl prefer the "__unported__" subdirectory
> convention over the "_unported" suffix convention.
> I believe the impact on already migrated repos is negligible.
> 
> So I open the discussion on this, and of couse will follow whatever
> consensus comes out of it.
> 
> Best regards,
> Daniel Reis
> 
> 
> 

Hi,

Daniel and Pedro raised good points why we should move the modules in a
__unported__ subdirectory (also discussed on
https://github.com/OCA/department/pull/1). I agree with them.

Thanks Daniel

Best,

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