tracking petsc

[Barry Smith]

  Simon,

    We are planning a new release real soon. I recommend very much
tracking petsc-dev, then after the release 2.3.1 you can stick with
that for a while (we'll patch problems that come up, but won't be 
constantly changing things).

   Barry


On Fri, 4 Nov 2005, Simon Burton wrote:

> On Thu, 03 Nov 2005 17:49:46 -0600
> Matthew Knepley <knepley at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:
> 
> > 
> > Simon Burton <simon at arrowtheory.com> writes:
> > 
> >       This was patched in 2.3.0, but maybe you have an unpatched version. It is
> > easy to check. The symbol comes from 
> 
> We have been tracking your bitkeeper repository. I don't know if this is
> sane or not because we want to release something (in a few weeks)
> and that basically means it is up to us to somehow stabilize PETSc,
> or at least "bless" some particular version of PETSc.
> 
> No, that doesn't sound right either: fixes that you guys make will go into
> the bk repository, so... I guess what I am asking is, are we just insane to
> try and do this ? Or, is it possible to maybe branch your repository so
> we can stabilize PETSc for some kind of beta release ?
> 
> Sounds like we just need to make it clear that petsc is on the move
> and that you guys are completely responsive to bug reports, etc.
> 
> We are going to build a "petsc doesn't work" FAQ, but, gee i wish your email
> list (petsc-maint) was archived somewhere...
> 
> If you start getting 10 more support queires a day can you handle that ?
> What about 50 ? Maybe I can also act as a gateway, if I tell our users to come to
> me first.
> 
> Simon.
> 
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