Re: [Openfoam-extend-general] The patch-branch and the git-branch

[Ola W. <ola...@ya...>]

Hi Bernhard,

I'm but a rather passive part of this illustrious community, but I still 
want to offer a word of appreciation and encouragement...

I think your effort with bug-patched version is very valuable. As Håkan 
says, a version which is slowly but surely getting more and more stable 
and bug-free, but being otherwise frozen, is very valuable. Especially 
when OpenFOAM is applied to industrial applications and more of a  
"production" type of context.

The appearance of OpenCFD's git repository is otherwise a very positive 
development. If OpenCFD is opening up a bit more to the outside world, 
it's a good thing.

Best regards,

Ola



Bernhard Gschaider wrote:
> It might have come to your attention[1], that the OpenCFD is offering a
> service (via GIT) similar to the the patch-branches on OpenFOAM-extend
> which in the long run might make these patch-branches obsolete (which
> is a good thing)
>
> Up to now the policy of the OF-extend-patch-branch was to
>
>  * include only bug-fixes (no new features)
>  * include only stuff that was accepted by the people from OpenCFD
>
> As a test all the changes supplied by the Git-version were
> incorporated into the patch-branch. Two patches from the message board
> were missing from the Git and reapplied. So the patch-branch should
> contain all the publicly known bug-fixes to OpenFOAM 1.5
>
> One two-sided sword is that int the Git-version there are also
> feature additions (which is good) and there was at least one instance
> of a code broken by those additions (this was one of the reasons why
> the patch-branch adopted the very conservative policy described
> above). This one breakage might have been an unfortunate accident. 
>
> To evaluate what the future options for the patch-branch should be I'm
> relying on feedback:
>
>  - is the patch-branch actually used?
>  - were there problems with it in the past?
>  - should it be abandoned in favour of the git-archive?
>
> Bernhard
>
> Footnotes: 
> [1]  http://www.opencfd.co.uk/openfoam/download.html#download
>
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