On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 10:08 AM, Satish Balay <balay at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:
> On Fri, 10 Feb 2012, Matthew Knepley wrote: > > > > until we move to bitbucket - can you continue to push to petsc.cs.iit > > > - and not bitbucket? [for now - pushes to petsc.cs.iit are > > > automatically pushed to bitbucket] > > > > > > > I thought we were switched already :) I cannot understand why we would > not > > give up this maintenance burden (and directories is not a good enough > > reason). > > For my part - I generally don't like the way the change is pushed. > > - one prblem => suggest change to a new system [not evaluating all the > features we currently have vs what we loose] > I thought I did that in several mails. What do you think I have no addressed? > - and I really get annoyed when a problem is pointed out with the new > sytem - and the solution to that is: the current model is workng - but > antique - lets change it to fix for this new system we are pusing > By this you mean not having directories? I agree that is a shortcoming. My explicit comment was that this is far outweighed by the positives. Everything is a balance, and here I believe the balance is clearly on the side of BB. You disagree on this I see. > Wrt current admin overhead - its not that much. Most of the work is > adding new users [not modifying user keys]. This part of admin work > will is exist with bitbucket. > Every time the user changes keys, we have to do something. I cannot believe Barry is not screaming about this maintenance nightmare. > The other systrem admin part is not much. Jsut reboot the machine when > there is a kernel update. > We clearly had this situation this week, and "just reboot" sucks pretty badly. > Also the reliability aspect of such sites is also verblown. I'm sure > some of them had their outages. [maybe not bit bucket - but some of > them do]. Out outages are more frequent. There is no need to exaggerate. However, I listed several improvements in maintenance in addition to uptime. Matt > > Satish > -- What most experimenters take for granted before they begin their experiments is infinitely more interesting than any results to which their experiments lead. -- Norbert Wiener -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.mcs.anl.gov/pipermail/petsc-dev/attachments/20120210/a68a4ecf/attachment.html>