[petsc-dev] petsc-dev on bitbucket

[Satish Balay]

On Thu, 9 Feb 2012, Satish Balay wrote:

> > Credential management is simpler because adding/removing keys and similar
> > can be done by the user instead of by emailing Satish.
> 
> replaced by  'crate a bitbucket account - and email sean your bitbucket id'
> 
> so eqivalent.

ok - I see your point. First step is equivalent. Later change of
keys/passwd is up to the user and doesn't involve e-mail [ with
bitbucket.]

Satish

> 
> Satish
> 
> > I'm not deeply invested either way, but I'm not seeing a compelling
> > argument not to use it. Many of the things you are requesting (separate
> > clones for each release, directory hierarchies to get to the repository)
> > would be considered "quirks" by other projects. I don't think PETSc is that
> > "special" that it needs to use different repository management.
> > 
> > That said, I'm not deeply invested and would rather write code than argue
> > about where to store it.
>