On Thu, 4 Sep 2014, Barry Smith wrote: > > On Sep 4, 2014, at 9:12 AM, Satish Balay <[email protected]> wrote: > > > how about 'petsc-dev' mailing list? > > :-) Though that could be slightly confusing it is just the petsc developers > mailing list and distinct from “petsc-dev” which means some mystical > repository somewhere (what branch?) that does need to be eradicated from our > vocabulary.
Incomplete statements will always such ambiguity. There is no harm in asking for clarification. petsc-dev It primarily refers to 'master branch' [or taball off it]. If one is using it differently - then there is an error. If eliminating petsc-dev [wrt repo/tarball] we also need to change http://www.mcs.anl.gov/petsc/developers/index.html What about maint? How does one interpret it? Does it refer to 'maint' branch aka release or petsc-maint e-mail? How about the bad corelation 'petsc-dev@mcs' for petsc-develoment discussion petsc-maint@mcs - petsc release discussions only? Or perhaps rename petsc-dev@ as petsc-development@ and petsc-maint@ as petsc-maintainance@ This maint/master/next terminology is great for gitworkflow users - not petsc users [who don't know or care about gitworkflows(8) terminology] Or we should always say 'master *branch*' or 'maint *branch*' [and a followup e-mail: master = development-stable next=development-testing etc..] Look at all the email replies from petsc developers that don't mention it [and we expect our users to be complete..] > Note the email we just got: > > I'm trying to build petsc-dev and it's failing on configuring Zoltan. I've > attached the configure.log > > Thanks, > John > > > I have not clue what branch John is talking about. petsc-dev refers to master branch. But one doesn't have to rely on that when we have logs.. $ grep VERSION_GIT configure.log #define PETSC_VERSION_GIT "unknown" Defined "VERSION_GIT" to ""v3.5.1-194-gde9c8a0"" #ifndef PETSC_VERSION_GIT #define PETSC_VERSION_GIT "v3.5.1-194-gde9c8a0" $ git branch -r --contains de9c8a0 origin/HEAD -> origin/master origin/knepley/feature-fe-fv-hybrid origin/master origin/tisaac/petsc-next-upstream origin/tisaac/thplex-on-master origin/tisaac/warn-next-upstream Satish
