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["Marie E. Rognes" <meg@xxxxxxxxx>]

Two practical questions:

* Bitbucket issues look nice for tracking bugs. Bur how about the registered open bugs? Will 'someone' transfer these from Launchpad or will they be lost in the move? 

* Is there any work involved in maintaining the mailinglist? 

--
Marie


On 18. mars 2013, at 17:54, Anders Logg <logg@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Dear FEniCS users and developers,
> 
> A couple of weeks back, a discussion got started on whether
> Launchpad/bzr is the best platform for FEniCS development.
> 
> Sites like Bitbucket and GitHub are competing heavily to offer
> superior services to coders, the development of bzr seems to have
> stagnated and Git offers several attractive features over Bazaar.
> 
> We've discussed various options over the last week with several
> developers, and done some testing and evaluation of our different
> options. Based on these discussions, Garth and I would like to make
> the following proposal:
> 
> 1. Move all the code to Git
> 
> 2. Move all the code to Bitbucket
> 
> 3. Move the user questions to http://scicomp.stackexchange.com/
> 
> 4. Move the mailing list(s) to fenicsproject.org
> 
> 5. Move all the code into a single repository using Git subtress
> 
> Some comments:
> 
> - Bitbucket and GitHub seem very comparable. One small advantage of
>  Bitbucket is that they allow free private repositories for academic
>  use, which some of us already use heavily for papers and
>  presentations.
> 
> - If we later want to switch to GitHub, it would be a very lightweight
>  operation, since it would only involve moving a Git repository (not
>  user questions, mailing lists, project teams etc etc). We can also
>  mirror the Git repository on GitHub right from the start so that
>  GitHub users can access it conveniently.
> 
> - I've asked the moderators on scicomp.stackexchange whether they
>  would welcome FEniCS user questions and they are very welcoming.
> 
>  http://meta.scicomp.stackexchange.com/questions/338/can-scicomp-stackexchange-be-used-for-project-specific-questions
> 
>  Some work will be required to create instructions on which
>  questions are appropriate to send to scicomp.stackexchange, and
>  which might instead go to the mailing list.
> 
> - Let's start with a single mailing list fenics-dev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx.
>  If we need more, we can add it later.
> 
> - I haven't thought about the Launchpad PPA service, so that remains
>  to be discussed.
> 
> What we do now is:
> 
> - Hear back from the community. I've had a chance to talk to most of
>  you here at the FEniCS'13 conference in Cambridge, but not all.
>  Please state any objections.
> 
> - Move the code over to Bitbucket as soon as we can. Then the rest.
> 
> PS: Thanks to Andy for being so obnoxious and bugging me about why we
> are still on Launchpad, and for suggesting the use of
> scicomp.stackexchange for the user questions.
> 
> --
> Anders
> 
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