[Docker Hub] Add the ability to transfer a repository between users/organizations about roadmap HOT 10 OPEN

I literally just ran into this issue. I have a project that was started as a personal project which I just migrated under a much larger organization. I'd like to transition https://hub.docker.com/r/herbrandson/k8dash to https://hub.docker.com/r/indeedoss/k8dash, but don't want to loose the ~1M downloads. More importantly, I'd like to have people who are pointing at the original package to continue to get updates w/o having to publish to 2 different repos going forward.

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Transfer the repository is not a problem. The problems are 1. Transfer statistics. 2 Transfer the License. When you do it in GitHub your License file is moved together with the repository. Docker image in the DockerHub has only an indirect reference to the License. If some corporate developers already use your image the corporate IP advocate will stop delivery of their software instantly. This is a big difference from his point of view in using an image from /pennendyr/ namespace to /pennendyr-Company/ namespace. Who is the license issuer?

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Same here, i want to transfer a repository to our organization, but we don't want to lose the downloads number.

Exact same situation here.

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Keep in mind that GitHub has a lot of restrictions for this (due to all of the things related to GitHub repositories). I think it could be easier in that respect (naive) but we would need to think hard about redirects. GitHub has the condition on redirects that if after renaming, transferring, or otherwise deleting the repository, if a new repository with the same name is created under the same user/organization, then the redirects stop working.

Something I've always wanted in Github is the ability to lock a namespace but continue to redirects to wherever it was moved. I'm not sure if we want something like that or if we want to have similar conditions for when redirects no longer work.

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I have the same problem with my repo https://hub.docker.com/r/robertslando/zwave2mqtt I would like to move to dockerhub openzwave org but I would loose all stats and also users will have to change the tag. I think this feature is a must have for DockerHub

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Same issue here for https://hub.docker.com/repository/docker/tvial/docker-mailserver with 40M+ pulls.

I'd like to transfer it to a github + docker organization keeping history/stats (it's now clearly more a community project than a personal project and should not be listed anymore under my personal name).

It's possible for Github, not for Docker.

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Same here. I need to move several repositories. It worked like a charm on github.

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Same here, i want to transfer a repository to our organization, but we don't want to lose the downloads number.

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