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[Anders Logg <logg@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Mar 23, 2007 at 10:57:23AM +0100, Johan Jansson wrote:
> Anders Logg wrote:
> >
> > It sounds like current DOLFIN + quality assurance, which sounds very
> > reasonable but also very ambitious.
> >
> > But what makes it confusing is that it seems to be a mix of
> > "dolfin-qa" and "arbitrary work on a subset of the modules".
> >
> > How about instead creating "mini releases" as often as needed
> > (whenever you make a snapshot of the development tree and verify that
> > it passes all the tests you require for it to be pulled onto the
> > dolfin-fsi tree)?
> >
> > We could name these releases
> >
> >     dolfin-x.y.z-n.tar.gz
> >
> > or
> >
> >     dolfin-x.y.{z+1}-rcn.tar.gz
> >
> > Then these snapshots could be really useful to everyone.
> >
> > But if the goal is less ambitious (to have a repository that is
> > tailored to your specific development model at KTH + eventually anyone
> > else who might be interested) then I have no opinions about the
> > repository.
> >
> > /Anders
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> 
> Yes, I also thought that what we're doing (or need) is essentially the
> same thing as much more frequent releases. I think we should aim for this
> model in the near future, it would work well with a split off
> dolfin-modules.

Very good, but I think it will *only* work with split off dolfin-modules.

> For now, let's just see how dolfin-fsi works out though. "work on modules"
> depends on "dolfin-qa" so I don't find that strange. It's not arbitrary
> work, all public module work should happen in dolfin-fsi. But it's just
> natural that since we at KTH have pushed for this, that we also "eat our
> own dog food" and show by example how the system should work.
> 
>   Johan

Until we have the modules in a separate repository, my opinion is that
module work *could* happen in dolfin-fsi if the module author finds
that convenient.

/Anders