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[Johan Jansson <jjan@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Anders Logg wrote:
> Simula has never made an open release of software depending on DOLFIN.
>
> Ola can probably say something more about this.
>
>   
Ok.
> > > Depending on what state the code is in when someone asks for a
> > > release, it may take from just a day to a couple of weeks to get a
> > > release ready. So if you just ask for a release earlier (like a couple
> > > of weeks before you need it), then it shouldn't be a problem.
> > >
> > > The dolfin-incremental thing looks like it complicates things. An
> > > alternative would be to make automatic daily snapshots so you can
> > > depend on dolfin-2008-01-16 for example.
> > >   
> > >       
> > I don't think it's practical to depend on automatic snapshots, you would 
> > have to time your commands to some daily or hourly script, it seems a 
> > bit cumbersome. But sure, why not build on the snapshot system. When you 
> > want a persistent snapshot release, you run the snapshot script with a 
> > date tag. Or?
> >     
>
> You mean not making automatic snapshots but having a script that takes
> a snapshot with version number = YYYY-MM-DD?
>
> That could work. We just need to add a directory
>
>   http://www.fenics.org/pub/software/dolfin/snapshots
>
> and a simple script named makesnapshot (or similar) under scripts/ in
> DOLFIN that runs the script and uploads. We can run this script
> anytime at the request of anyone.
>   
Ok good, this would probably be enough to satisfy everyone.
> > > On a related note, can we remove dolfin-stable and
> > > dolfin-testing? They haven't been updated for 6 months
> > >       
> > I think we should have a working system in place before we remove old 
> > systems. But they can be removed if we have a usable alternative.
> >     
>
> But is anyone using them? They don't seem to be maintained
No, they haven't been used lately. We've had a dolfin-kth repository 
which has filled the function of dolfin-testing for the "unicorn-kth" 
repository. But rather than extending such a setup to the FEniCS unicorn 
repository, I think it's a better idea to develop against frequent 
snapshot releases. So let's try that and remove dolfin-testing and 
dolfin-stable.

 Johan