A third practical issue, we need to think about how we cleanly transition branches.
David On Monday, March 18, 2013, Marie E. Rognes wrote: > > Two practical questions: > > * Bitbucket issues look nice for tracking bugs. Bur how about the > registered open bugs? Will 'someone' transfer these from Launchpad or will > they be lost in the move? > > * Is there any work involved in maintaining the mailinglist? > > -- > Marie > > > On 18. mars 2013, at 17:54, Anders Logg <[email protected] <javascript:;>> > wrote: > > > 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]<javascript:;> > . > > 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] <javascript:;> > > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~fenics > > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~fenics > Post to : [email protected] <javascript:;> > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~fenics > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > -- Dr David Ham Department of Computing Imperial College London http://www.imperial.ac.uk/people/david.ham
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