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

[Matthew Turk]

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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