[petsc-dev] Patch review

[Hong Zhang]

Sorry, my sloppiness.
I should examining it before pushing.
I'll clean it, and will ask Jie to provide regression tests.

Hong

On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 6:44 PM, Jed Brown <jedbrown at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:

> On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 6:38 PM, Jie Chen <jiechen at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:
>
>> I am in fact somewhat reluctant to push out everything before it is
>> formally published and fully tested. The patch consists of more than one
>> algorithmic developments that may be far away from maturity (but they are
>> likely to work), though the authors might be the only ones who care about
>> the new algorithms at this point. Besides, the codes are now full of hacks
>> and lack documentation. I have no problem reverting petsc to the old
>> version temporarily, and I promise I will clean everything to meet the
>> production requirement, although this might not happen in a very short
>> time. Meanwhile I think it also does not hurt to keep the patch as is, as
>> the modification is likely to be used by the author circle only.
>
>
> There isn't a problem with experimental code, but if you are going to push
> experimental code, it should conform to the usual standards. No need to
> revert the patch unless you've already decided it is a failed experiment.
>
> If something is genuinely useful, we certainly like to have it in our bag
> of tricks immediately. Waiting until a paper is published to put it in the
> repo just means that it will take longer to find use in real applications.
> As far as I'm concerned, an ideal scenario is that by the time someone
> reads the paper, they already have the functionality in a released version
> of PETSc, thus can experiment on their own problems without even
> recompiling. (This being the lowest possible effort, it maximizes the
> chances of finding other applications where the method is useful, thus
> maximizing citations, in case that is the metric you care about.)
>
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