[Yt-dev] Introducing the yt hub

[Cameron Hummels]

Oh, and I should've thanked *both* Britton and Matt for their work on 
this.  I know Britton put a lot of work (and new scripts!) into it.  
Excellent work, gentlepeople!

On 9/1/11 8:45 AM, John Wise wrote:
> 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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