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[David Ham <David.Ham@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

A third practical issue, we need to think about how we cleanly transition
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David

On Monday, March 18, 2013, Marie E. Rognes wrote:

>
> 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 <javascript:;>>
> 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<javascript:;>
> .
> >  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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Dr David Ham
Department of Computing
Imperial College London

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