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[Evan Lezar <mail@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi all

I do not have much personal experience with either launchpad or bitbucket,
but I would have to say that hosting everything (mailing list, code, etc) in
one place makes more sense to me.

In addition, I see that bitbucket is not a free service.

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Evan Lezar

Computational Electromagnetics Group
Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering
University of Stellenbosch
Stellenbosch
South Africa

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On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 4:41 PM, Garth N. Wells <gnw20@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> There has been some discussion on the dolfin-dev mailing list over the past
> few days on moving the FEniCS development repositories to a hosted service.
> The discussion has arisen in part due to the burden involved in maintaining
> the fenics.org server. With this message, I would like to kick-off a
> discussion and solicit opinions on moving the FEniCS development
> repositories to a hosted service.
>
> We are already using a free hosted service (Launchpad) for bug tracking and
> feature planning for a number of FEniCS components and this has proved to be
> a success. The question which I wish to pose now is should we move all the
> FEniCS development repositories to a hosted service?
>
> In terms of hosted services, the two most attractive options are Launchpad
> (https://launchpad.net) and Bitbucket (http://bitbucket.org). Versions of
> the DOLFIN repository are presently available on both
>
>    https://code.launchpad.net/~fenics/dolfin/dev
>    http://bitbucket.org/dolfin/dolfin/
>
> Feel free to test them out. As mentioned above, we are already using
> Launchpad, and it provides some useful features like release planning and
> mailing lists. The drawback is that the version control system supported by
> Launchpad is Bazaar. Bazaar is very similar to Mercurial, but becoming
> familiar with it will require some effort. The advantage of Bitbucket is
> that it supports Mercurial repositories. However, it's bug tracking and
> feature planning tools are, in my opinion, not as good as those on
> Launchpad. Bitbucket does not provide mailing lists, so they would have to
> be hosted elsewhere.
>
> I think that moving to a hosted service will provide us with development
> tools features and tools which are not and will not be provided on
> www.fenics.org. The www.fenics.org website would remain, and its purpose
> would be to present the FEniCS Project and its components. Only the
> development aspects would be moved to a hosted service.
>
> Garth
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