Hey folks,
I wanted to give you a heads-up that the upstream ROCm project is
preparing to consolidate its repositories under a single ROCm GitHub
organization [1]. The Debian ROCm Team has a number of packages with
upstream sources found within the RadeonOpenCompute [2],
ROCm-Developer-Tools [3], and ROCmSoftwarePlatform [4] organizations.
In the near future, all of those upstream repositories will be
transferred to the ROCm organization. There are also a few
repositories within the GPUOpen-ProfessionalCompute-Libraries
organization [5] that will be transferred, but none that have been
packaged by Debian.
This consolidation is being done for a number of reasons. I won't go
into all of them, but one of the objectives of this change is to make
it easier for users to navigate the ROCm source code by bringing all
the relevant components together in once place. The consolidation also
makes it easier to handle certain project management activities, like
issue triage; GitHub issues can be moved between repos in an
organization, but not between organizations.
I don't expect this to be disruptive. GitHub will provide redirects
for the transferred repositories, so the old URLs will continue to
function (both in web browsers and in git). I would suggest just
updating the URL in each package on its next upload after the transition.
If you have any questions or concerns, I can relay them directly to
the organizer for this change. I want to ensure this is a seamless
transition for Debian.
Sincerely,
Cory Bloor
[1]: https://github.com/ROCm/
[2]: https://github.com/RadeonOpenCompute/
[3]: https://github.com/ROCm-Developer-Tools/
[4]: https://github.com/ROCmSoftwarePlatform/
[5]: https://github.com/GPUOpen-ProfessionalCompute-Libraries/