Contributor update: React Native core source code is moving from root to packages/react-native/

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Hi all,

TL;DR: We’re moving a lot of the React Native code inside the packages/react-native/ folder of this repository. This issue serves as a heads up and a place to report any issues that come up.

What is happening?

We’re moving the react-native core code from the root folder and subfolders (like ReactCommon, React and ReactAndroid) inside the packages/react-native subfolder. This is a major step forward to proper monorepo setup, which was originally described in monorepo RFC. We expect this to improve developer experience for contributors of react-native. You can get a preview of how it looks by checking this PR.

What does this mean for me?

If you’re a React Native user: nothing will change for you. You can stop reading this issue as this change is completely transparent for you.
If you’re a React Native contributor: you will have to rebase your PRs on top of main and make sure you follow the new file structure. Similarly, if you’re maintaining a fork of React Native, you will have to adapt to the new file structure.

When is this happening?

We’re looking into merging this change on Wednesday 15.03.2023 as a first attempt. We might need to revert the change if it causes problems on our internal setup, and we’ll attempt to re-land in the immediate future.

What should I do if anything breaks?

We foresee that the most impacted folks are contributors with open PRs and fork maintainers. Git should help you while rebasing as the changes are mostly files being moved, and automatic rebases should just work.

If you’re facing issues or problems, please comment on this issue and link your repo / PR.

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Quick update

We had difficulties with merging it, which were not related to the changes themselves.
This will be fixed today and we will try again tomorrow (16.03) morning GMT.

UPD: Successfully landed on 17.03.

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Closing this as we have successfully released 0.72.