Re: [cclib-devel] github fork

[Karol M. L. <kar...@gm...>]

Hi Noel,

It seems that Sourceforge actually now supports git repositories, if we wanted to convert and stay there.
The way to do it is to 'add' a git repository by adding the appropriate 'app' in the admin panel,
which creates an empty repository. The svn tree can then be converted to git and pushed to that.

I don't think we could resaonably use both repositories for development, so one would need to be
read-only, and I think we should keep the svn repo online for users that have that set up.

Meanwhile, to start off I pushed the trunk to a repostiory on github: https://github.com/langner/cclib
I will keep this up to date and would be in favor of moving mostly to github in the future.
If we went that route, I suppose the sf repo would be read-only. Additional things things to consider:
- what to do with current wiki / web page
- what to do with current branches
- what to do with previous releases/tags
- what to do with current and old issues in the tracker
- what to do with mailing lists

What do you think? I believe you did something similar for OpenBabel at some point. How did that work?

Cheers,
Karol

On Nov 08 2013, Karol M. Langner wrote:
> Hi guys,
> 
> Nice to see this. And Clyde -- nice project!
> 
> Noel, how recently have you looked at the github interface for Windows? If I rememeber
> correctly, several weeks ago they made some significant improvements.
> 
> I don't know about mercurial, but they do support svn now.
> 
> Before moving to github, however, we could set up an "official" fork -- I'd be happy to do it,
> and try to suck in Clyde's contribution via that. BTW, I'm +1 on moving to git. I always struggle
> with the sourceforge svn tools.
> 
> - Karol
> 
> On Nov 08 2013, Noel O'Boyle wrote:
> > (ccing to the list)
> > 
> > Hi Clyde,
> > 
> > Thanks for letting me know. You're free to do this of course - might
> > be good to make it clear that this is an "unofficial" fork though.
> > Just to save people contacting us asking about ASE.
> > 
> > Naturally for us we would prefer if you contribute any fixes directly
> > to cclib. In this case, if any of our units are incorrect we would
> > like to fix our source.
> > 
> > This might be the push we need to consider moving to Github. Git on
> > Windows though is a joke. The interface is not a lot better than the
> > old CVS one (you probably don't remember this) which also used to call
> > out to the command line. If only Github ran mercurial...:-/
> > 
> > - Noel
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > On 7 November 2013 15:05, Clyde Fare <cly...@gm...> wrote:
> > > Hi Noel
> > >
> > > I've got a git repository with cclib in it because I am faffing about trying
> > > to put together a bunch of python of tools associated with quantum chemistry
> > > to use with the ipython notebook. In my version I've changed the units that
> > > cclib uses in it's conversions because I want the various parsers I use to
> > > all use the same units.
> > >
> > > As I wanted an easy way of loading the package into Anaconda I've put the
> > > result on github here:
> > > https://github.com/Clyde-fare/cclib
> > >
> > > Github  have a very fork-me friendly mentality but it occurred to me that
> > > you might not be so happy that I'd done this so just wanted to check in with
> > > you - I could write a version that means the units used are chosen based on
> > > some flag (and your initial units are the default) which would mean I could
> > > keep my version synced with yours if that's something you would prefer.
> > >
> > > Cheers
> > >
> > > Clyde
> > >
> > 
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> written by Karol M. Langner
> Fri Nov  8 15:32:34 EST 2013

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written by Karol M. Langner
Sun Dec 29 00:39:40 EST 2013