nuclearsandwich
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5 months ago Thanks for opening the issue.
The team here does our best to maintain a "rationale" structure for this large organization but this is very much in the eye of the beholder.
With respect to ros_misc_utilities vs misc_utilities, the convention that we've established is that for upstream organizations with a ros[-_] prefix where the project/package name is not ros_foobar, we'll drop the leading ros[-_] as otherwise we'll end up with 300 files named ros_whatever.tf. Which is how we arrived at the misc_utilites name for the release team and terraform file.
We can indeed consolidate the ffmpeg_image_transport team into misc_utiltiies. I've opened https://github.com/ros2-gbp/ros2-gbp-github-org/pull/492 to do just that. Please approve it if that meets your expectations.
While the changes are deploying, you may momentarily lose push access to the ffmpeg_image_transport repositories if that team is dropped before the misc_utilities team is updated but as you'll remain part of the ros2-gbp organization for the entire transition you should not need to accept any invites before access is re-granted under the other team.
I originally requested a team by the the name ros_misc_utilities in issue #390. This was closed by PR #408, but "ffmpeg_image_transport_team" was used as opposed to "ros_misc_utilities" as requested.
Sure enough, this caused confusion later when adding more repositories to the team. First when I requested the apriltag_detector repo being added to the "ros_misc_utilities" team (issue #440 closed by PR #446): a new team was created ("misc_utilities"), and the repo was associated with "misc_utilities".
But now when I requested to add the "ffmpeg_image_transport_tools" repo (issue #481) it was associated with "misc_utilities" in PR #488.
So we have two teams now: "ffmpeg_image_transport_team" and the "misc_utilities" team, neither of which matches the original requested "ros_misc_utilities" (which I chose to be the name of the github organization).
Can we merge these two teams into one (called "ros_miscutilities")? If you dislike the "ros" prefix, how about merging "ffmpeg_image_transport_team" into the "misc_utilities" team?
Thanks!