[yt-dev] proposal to merge yt-3.0 development into main repo

[Britton Smith]

Hi all,

Now that we have pushed out the last (or nearly the last) major release of
yt-2.x, many are now joining the effort to work on yt-3.0.  As you may have
noticed, there is a yt-3.0 branch in the main yt repo hosted at
https://bitbucket.org/yt_analysis/yt.  However, most of the actual
development has been happening in a separate yt-3.0 repo (
https://bitbucket.org/yt_analysis/yt-3.0).

I think it may now be time to consider moving yt-3.0 development over to
the main repository.  I think this will lower the barrier of entry for a
number of people and should not be a big problem to users of 2.x now that
that version has mostly stabilized.

As for logistics, a number of people have done work in forks of the yt-3.0,
so we should not remove it entirely.  Instead, I propose making it
read-only, and having people push their changes to a fork of the main yt
repo and working off of that from now on.  The magic of mercurial should
make this relatively painless.

Thoughts?  +/-1?

Britton
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