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[Andy Ray Terrel <andy.terrel@xxxxxxxxx>]

I have been playing around with the branches on bitbucket and I have
to say I'm less impressed.  With github, we would just give
instructions for each individual to fork the
github.com/fenics/package.git repo and push their branches to their
space.  Then a pull request (or merge request) can be done in the same
fashion as lp. The show up as issues and can be referenced easily plus
they have a nice listing.  We can also setup a buildbot for the pull
requests that show if pull request pass the tests, for example see
https://github.com/sympy/sympy-bot .

 On Bitbucket I haven't figured out how to do a pull request from two
separate branches (only to the main repo and its forks).  Jed tells me
to send a bug report,


-- Andy

On Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 6:48 PM, David Ham <David.Ham@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> A third practical issue, we need to think about how we cleanly transition
> branches.
>
> 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> 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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