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 <l...@simula.no> 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-...@fenicsproject.org. > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~fenics > Post to : fenics@lists.launchpad.net > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~fenics > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~fenics Post to : fenics@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~fenics More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
