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

[Britton Smith]

Also, to be clear, I think we should keep yt-3.0 development in the yt-3.0
branch of yt for the time being.


On Tue, Nov 26, 2013 at 12:20 PM, Britton Smith <brittonsmith at gmail.com>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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