[mesa-users] MESA on SourceForge

[Sean Couch]

Also, the future of SourceForge is in doubt <http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/07/dhi-group-plans-to-sell-off-slashdot-and-sourceforge/>, and it’s business practices are already questionable <http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/05/sourceforge-grabs-gimp-for-windows-account-wraps-installer-in-bundle-pushing-adware/>. 

Sean


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> On Jul 28, 2015, at 9:31 PM, Michael Zingale <michael.zingale at stonybrook.edu> wrote:
> 
> Hi Frank et al.  Might this be a time to potentially explore switching over to a distributed version control system, like git or hg? and hosting on github or bitbucket?  There are a few advantages to the community.  
> 
> (1) everyone would have a full-fledged repo, so they can go back in time on their own, without communicating with sf.net <http://sf.net/>, if it goes down.  and 
> 
> (2) with github (or similar sites), external users can directly send changes to the official source and ask for them to be incorporated (via a pull request).  I know that this is done through Bill now (and I never cease to be amazed at how Bill stays on top of everything), but there is an important advantage for young contributors with the official pull-request mechanism.  If someone's changes are incorporated into MESA, then their name forever lives on in the git history for MESA for all to see.  This is a nice way that people can show their contributions and get credit in the community.
> 
> There are other advantages, like lightweight branches that can be used to develop new features, etc.
> 
> Anyway, something to think about.  There are a lot of astro projects that have switched over to distributed version control.  yt does this quite well (and some yters lurk here and can chime in).
> 
> On Tue, Jul 28, 2015 at 8:27 PM, Francis Timmes <fxt44 at mac.com <mailto:fxt44 at mac.com>> wrote:
> Dear MESA community,
> 
> SourceForge offers a centralized source code repository and other features
> that developers can use for open-source software instruments.
> MESA is hosted on SourceForge.
> 
> On July 16 2015 SourceForge suffered a serious storage fault that has taken
> more than two weeks for SourceForge to repair. The MESA project is still
> not fully recovered, but we are working with SourceForge to reach 100%.
> 
> The good news is you can continue to download the latest release version 7624,
> browse the MESA website, and use this email list to ask questions.
> 
> fxt
> 
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