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[Anders Logg <logg@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 04:49:03PM -0600, Andy Ray Terrel wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 4:27 PM, Garth N. Wells <gnw20@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> >
> > Andy Ray Terrel wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>> The repository is here now:
> >>>>
> >>>>  http://bitbucket.org/dolfin/dolfin/
> >>>>
> >>>> Btw, Garth and I have discussed the possibility of moving the
> >>>> repositories from fenics.org to Bitbucket. Less to maintain and we
> >>>> don't need to rely on the good will of someones IT support (which may
> >>>> not be indefinite).
> >>
> >> I assume you want to move all of FEniCS over to bitbucket's service.
> >> This will be quite a migration for all the different apps, but in
> >> general I have been very pleased with bitbucket.  Why not switch to
> >> bazaar and integrate the code with the launchpad system?
> >>
> >
> > That's a possibility.
> >
> > Here's quick run down on pro/cons that I see. Feel free to add to it.
> >
> > Launchpad:
> >
> >  Pros:
> >  Nice interface
> >  Blueprints
> >  We're already using it
> >  Mailing lists
> >  Release planning
> >  Free
> >
> >  Cons:
> >  bazaar: we'd have to learn it. Is it fast enough?
>
> Its supposedly faster than mercurial now ( http://bazaar-vcs.org/Benchmarks ).
>
> >
> > Bitbucket:
> >
> >  Pros:
> >  Mercurial
> >  Nice interface
> >  Wiki
> >  Simple management of ssh keys
>
>
> Something missing here is the fork ability.  I don't think launchpad
> has this mechanism where you can make a fork a project and requests
> pulls easily.  It something I do a lot with bitbucket (and github),
> but I don't think that outweighs nice integration with a bug tracker.

You can do branches on Launchpad it seems.

http://people.canonical.com/~ianc/doc/en/tutorials/using_bazaar_with_launchpad.html

--
Anders

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