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Re: [cclib-devel] Moving to github (Was: github fork)
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From: Karol M. L. <kar...@gm...> - 2013-12-30 01:14:02
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For the interim I removed all write permissions on Sourceforge. On Dec 29 2013, Adam Tenderholt wrote: > Hi Noel and others, > > I think moving cclib development to Github is a great idea. Let me know if > there is anything I can do to help. > > Adam > > > > On Sun, Dec 29, 2013 at 1:42 PM, Noel O'Boyle <bao...@gm...> wrote: > > > Let's move to git on github. Adam are you okay with this? > > > > Moving to github for Open Babel has meant a lot more commits from 3rd > > parties. I think cclib might benefit here also as it's so easy for > > someone just to patch their fork and send a pull request. I'm on the > > record as not liking using git too much, but if I can survive doing it > > for Open Babel I can do it for cclib too. > > > > I will set up a cclib organisation there with all of us on it, and see > > whether I can import everything with full history. If this works out, > > Karol, you should probably delete your current cclib repo and fork > > this instead. > > > > Regarding one of your points, it's github not just git that is key > > here, so I don't think SF's git is really an option. Regarding the > > other points on SF versus github, let's think about those later as > > this move is largely independent (apart from the bug tracker). > > > > - Noel > > > > On 29 December 2013 05:58, Karol M. Langner <kar...@gm...> > > wrote: > > > 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 > > >> > > > > >> > > > >> > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > >> > November Webinars for C, C++, Fortran Developers > > >> > Accelerate application performance with scalable programming models. > > Explore > > >> > techniques for threading, error checking, porting, and tuning. 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