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["Garth N. Wells" <gnw20@xxxxxxxxx>]

Evan Lezar wrote:
> 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.

That's true. I didn't mention it because, for the size of our projects, 
the fee is small. The fee itself is not an obstacle, but it does 
introduce some admin to make sure that it gets paid.

Garth


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> Evan Lezar
>
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> 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 
> <mailto: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 <http://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 <http://www.fenics.org>. The
>     www.fenics.org <http://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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