Dear FEniCS users and developers, A couple of weeks back, a discussion got started on whether Launchpad/bzr is the best platform for FEniCS development.
Sites like Bitbucket and GitHub are competing heavily to offer superior services to coders, the development of bzr seems to have stagnated and Git offers several attractive features over Bazaar. We've discussed various options over the last week with several developers, and done some testing and evaluation of our different options. Based on these discussions, Garth and I would like to make the following proposal: 1. Move all the code to Git 2. Move all the code to Bitbucket 3. Move the user questions to http://scicomp.stackexchange.com/ 4. Move the mailing list(s) to fenicsproject.org 5. Move all the code into a single repository using Git subtress Some comments: - Bitbucket and GitHub seem very comparable. One small advantage of Bitbucket is that they allow free private repositories for academic use, which some of us already use heavily for papers and presentations. - If we later want to switch to GitHub, it would be a very lightweight operation, since it would only involve moving a Git repository (not user questions, mailing lists, project teams etc etc). We can also mirror the Git repository on GitHub right from the start so that GitHub users can access it conveniently. - I've asked the moderators on scicomp.stackexchange whether they would welcome FEniCS user questions and they are very welcoming. http://meta.scicomp.stackexchange.com/questions/338/can-scicomp-stackexchange-be-used-for-project-specific-questions Some work will be required to create instructions on which questions are appropriate to send to scicomp.stackexchange, and which might instead go to the mailing list. - Let's start with a single mailing list [email protected]. If we need more, we can add it later. - I haven't thought about the Launchpad PPA service, so that remains to be discussed. What we do now is: - Hear back from the community. I've had a chance to talk to most of you here at the FEniCS'13 conference in Cambridge, but not all. Please state any objections. - Move the code over to Bitbucket as soon as we can. Then the rest. PS: Thanks to Andy for being so obnoxious and bugging me about why we are still on Launchpad, and for suggesting the use of scicomp.stackexchange for the user questions. -- Anders _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~fenics Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~fenics More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
