[Yt-dev] Introducing the yt hub

[John Wise]

Hi Britton and Matt,

I wanted to second Cameron's praise for the yt hub.  I just submitted 
one of my scripts, and the process was very straightforward.  It's a 
*huge* improvement over the Barn.  Great job guys.

Cheers,
John

On 08/31/2011 02:57 PM, Cameron Hummels wrote:
> Hey Matt,
>
> I used this the other day to submit my "resubmit" script (for
> automatically resubmitting long enzo jobs to the kraken queue), and the
> yt hubsubmit script worked beautifully. This will make it super easy for
> people to submit their own scripts and such to the hub for sharing with
> the community. Great work!
>
> Cameron
>
> On 8/23/11 3:59 PM, Matthew Turk wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> To follow up on Britton's email, he and I have been working on
>> automating and streamlining this process. We have created a command,
>> "hubsubmit", that will submit a mercurial repository to the Hub; it
>> builds on the work of the "bootstrap_dev" command in getting users up
>> and running on Bitbucket and with Mercurial.
>>
>> The idea is that if someone has created a set of scripts, or has an
>> existing repository, it should be easy to submit that to the Hub.
>>
>> The command proceeds as follows:
>>
>> * Check if a repository exists in the current working directory (or,
>> optionally, the directory specified by --repo or -R)
>> * If not: prompt the user whether or not they would like to create
>> one. If so, create and import all current contents. If not, quit.
>> * Check if a BitBucket URL is already in the set of paths in the
>> repository; i.e., if it is a push alias. If not, prompt the user for
>> creating a repo on BitBucket and push to that location.
>> * Push to BitBucket URL.
>> * Prompt for Hub username/password
>> * Prompt for necessary hub submission stuff
>> * Submit!
>>
>> If you could test it out (and if you run into a low-hanging bug or
>> ugliness, feel free to fix it!) that would be great. Britton or I can
>> remove any 'test' submissions you make along the way.
>>
>> The idea here is to make it ridiculously easy to submit to the Hub --
>> just one step harder than the pastebin. I think this is a good step
>> in that direction, but I'd love some testing and suggestions!
>>
>> -Matt
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Aug 22, 2011 at 10:37 AM, Britton
>> Smith<brittonsmith at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Good morning yt developers,
>>>
>>> I am very pleased to introduce to you all the yt hub:
>>> http://hub.yt-project.org/.
>>>
>>> This was one of the main motivations for moving to yt-project.org. Many
>>> here might remember
>>> the enzotools barn, which was a place for people to submit non-yt
>>> related
>>> enzo scripts. The
>>> barn was very limited in scope and had somewhat poor usability since the
>>> submission and
>>> registration processes were not at all automated or simple. Those
>>> days are
>>> over.
>>>
>>> With the yt hub, users can create their own accounts and submissions
>>> themselves. We are
>>> aiming for the yt hub to become the place to share all things related to
>>> computational
>>> astrophysics: yt scripts, simulation code specific scripts, relevant
>>> news
>>> (like workshop
>>> announcements), repositories of scripts for making figures from
>>> published
>>> papers, etc. Users
>>> also have the option of subscribing to the hub, where they will receive
>>> email alerts of new
>>> submissions.
>>>
>>> Before we announce this to the full community, it would be great have
>>> the
>>> site decently
>>> populated with submissions. If you have anything that you think other
>>> people would be
>>> interested in, please post it to the hub. Currently, the recommended
>>> method
>>> is to create
>>> a repository somewhere like bitbucket and to submit the link to that. If
>>> you'd like to host
>>> you submissions somewhere else, that's fine, too.
>>>
>>> All comments and feedback are welcome. Hopefully, this can be something
>>> really great.
>>>
>>> Britton
>>> Matt
>>>
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-- 
John Wise
Assistant Professor of Physics
Center for Relativistic Astrophysics, Georgia Tech