[petsc-dev] petsc-dev on bitbucket

[Satish Balay]

On Fri, 10 Feb 2012, Barry Smith wrote:

> 
> On Feb 10, 2012, at 9:13 AM, Matthew Knepley wrote:
> 
> > The thread has become too deep for me to read, hence the top posting.
> > 
> > Barry's question is the right one: What do we gain by changing?
> > 
> >   1) Reliability and Availability
> > 
> >    Barry, you should know that this crap about petsc.cs being backed up is farcical. We
> >    would have the same situation we had with the first 10 years of PETSc history again.
> >    BB is definitely more reliable in terms of backups, uptime, and connectivity (SSH issues).
> > 
> >    2) Better management support
> > 
> >    The infrastructure for supporting user permissions is better on BB. We don't edit a file,
> >     calling a script someone hacked together. We have accounts, and when accounts are
> >     shut down they go away. A user can manage his SSH key independently of us.
> > 
> > Those for me make it a slam dunk. However, I will ask the question in reverse: What do we
> > give up?
> 
>    I decent way of hierarchically organizing our repositories. Tell me how to do this on bitbucket and you have your slam dunk.
>

Also some discussion on private repos.

I guess none of you have objections for hosting private [for all kinds
of collaboration work] at bitbucket.  [I don't claim 'iit' is better -
for some work 'mcs' hosting was prefered]. Also lot of this work
collabartion stuff is hosted at google docs - so I guess this isn't an
issue.

As I understand it - for more than 5 folks to be able to access a
private repo - one needs to be on a paid plan with bitbucket. [not a
big deal - but want to put that up front]


> > I think the only thing we give up is the security blanket of being able to log in
> > ourselves and mess with a machine directly.

For some things its was easier to do it ourselves than wait for
someone else [aka admin to do things.]  I think there was a
significant benefit with this [for a lot of issues that came up in the
past few years.]

Satish