[mesa-users] MESA on SourceForge

[Grant Newsham]

I think that is an understatement. They have been pilloried and rightly so
for the GIMP farce.

On Wed, Jul 29, 2015 at 2:42 PM, Sean Couch <smc at flash.uchicago.edu> wrote:

> 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/>
> .
>
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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, 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> 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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