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

j s oishi jsoishi at gmail.com
Tue Nov 26 06:38:13 PST 2013


+1. Let's do this.


On Tue, Nov 26, 2013 at 9:26 AM, Matthew Turk <matthewturk at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I'd be +1 on this.  Keep the yt-3.0 branch separate, make
> yt_analysis/yt-3.0 read-only, and move yt-3.0 the branch itself into
> the main yt_analysis/yt repository.
>
> On Tue, Nov 26, 2013 at 7:29 AM, John Wise <jwise at physics.gatech.edu>
> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > As someone that just moved to the yt-3.0 repo (and not having much time
> for
> > dev anymore...), I think this is a good idea.  Having it separate was a
> > barrier for me because 2.x worked for most of my analysis, and I just
> kept
> > on using 2.x because of convenience.  However, if the latest changes
> were in
> > the main repo, then users could easily switch to the 3.0 branch and test
> > things out.
> >
> > +1
> >
> > Cheers,
> > John
> >
> >
> > On 11/26/2013 07:20 AM, Britton Smith wrote:
> >>
> >> 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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