[yt-dev] Proposal: merge 'experimental' bookmark into the 'development' bookmark

[Matthew Turk]

I'm also in favor of this.  I think we should do this as soon as is
reasonable, perhaps early next week.  Tuesday?

On Fri, Apr 4, 2014 at 10:33 PM, Sam Skillman <samskillman at gmail.com> wrote:
> +1
>
> On Apr 4, 2014 7:15 PM, "Cameron Hummels" <chummels at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> +1
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Apr 4, 2014 at 6:33 PM, B.W. Keller <kellerbw at mcmaster.ca> wrote:
>>>
>>> I also agree.
>>>
>>>
>>> On Fri, Apr 4, 2014 at 3:42 PM, John ZuHone <jzuhone at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> +1
>>>>
>>>> On Apr 4, 2014, at 3:31 PM, Nathan Goldbaum <nathan12343 at gmail.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> > Hi all,
>>>> >
>>>> > This came up during the google hangout this morning and I think it's a
>>>> > good idea.
>>>> >
>>>> > Right now there are four heads and three named branches in the
>>>> > yt_analysis/yt mercurial repository:
>>>> >
>>>> > - "stable"
>>>> >   This corresponds to the 2.6.2 stable release.
>>>> >
>>>> > - "yt"
>>>> >   This corresponds to the 2.7dev branch
>>>> >
>>>> > - "development"
>>>> >   This is on the yt-3.0 named branch, but before the unitrefactor and
>>>> > field refactor were merged in.
>>>> >
>>>> > - "experimental"
>>>> >   This is also on the yt-3.0 named branch, and incldues unitrefactor,
>>>> > field refactor, and many other changes added since the development workshop
>>>> > at UCSC.
>>>> >
>>>> > I see a good reason to retain the "yt" development branch - there have
>>>> > several pull requests into it and many of our users are still using it for
>>>> > day-to-day work.
>>>> >
>>>> > I don't see a good reason to keep the distinction between
>>>> > "development" and "experimental".  There have been no pull requests into the
>>>> > "development" bookmark.  There are also known bugs with respect to particle
>>>> > field detection on the "development" bookmark.
>>>> >
>>>> > We wanted to keep the "development" bookmark as a way to easily update
>>>> > to a yt-3.0 release from before the time when unitrefactor and the field
>>>> > refactor were merged in.
>>>> >
>>>> > I think that keeping a seperate head in the repository for this
>>>> > purpose is unnecessary - we could just have a named tag.  For example, we
>>>> > could call it yt-3.0a5 and point it at the current development bookmark
>>>> > changeset (0d705d2ae8eb).
>>>> >
>>>> > Benefits to doing this:
>>>> >
>>>> > We would only have three heads in the main repo, each on a different
>>>> > named branch.  This will make it easier to work with bitbucket, which has a
>>>> > UI optimized for named branches rather than bookmarks.
>>>> >
>>>> > We will onboard more users to the new codebase, which is the way
>>>> > forward and represents the code that will actually be released for the final
>>>> > 3.0 release.
>>>> >
>>>> > Possible issues:
>>>> >
>>>> > The "bleeding edge" install script will build a version of yt
>>>> > including all the new features.  Since documentation is still not up to
>>>> > snuff, there might be confusion due to innacurate or incomplete
>>>> > documentation.
>>>> >
>>>> > I'd love to hear feedback about this - particularly if there are any
>>>> > strong objections.
>>>> >
>>>> > -Nathan
>>>> >
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