On Monday, Jan 26, we will rename the repository edx-platform to openedx-platform, a long-overdue change!
This is more consistent with how our other repositories are named, and we believe it’ll help newcomers understand the distinction between edX and Open edX.
Based on our experience renaming repositories and on GitHub’s docs, we don’t expect any disruption for operators or developers. GitHub will automatically forward web requests and git ssh URIs without any action required on your part. Any forks of openedx/edx-platform will automatically become forks of openedx/openedx-platform. The name of your fork with still be YourOrg/edx-platform, but you are free to change it to YourOrg/openedx-platform as well if you like.
No, this will not have any impact on older versions of Tutor.
Relatedly, I’ve tested that if you git-clone using the repository’s old name, then it will write to a directory with the old name, which is important for backwards compatibility with tooling.
# These will both work:
git@github.com:openedx/openedx-platform # Writes to ./openedx-platform
git@github.com:openedx/edx-platform # Writes to ./edx-platform
The renaming has happend and I’ve updated some critical references in the openedx-platform repo (README, catalog-info.yml, and CODEOWNERS). We’ll update the renamining references to the old repo name over time. If this causes you any issues, please let us know here!