[petsc-dev] [petsc-users] new book introducing PETSc for PDEs

[Satish Balay]

On Sat, 31 Oct 2020, Jed Brown wrote:

> Barry Smith <bsmith at petsc.dev> writes:
> 
> >    I have no problem updating any of Ed's examples if we need to with each release, so the burdern doesn't fall on him. We simply make a fork of his 
> > repository with a new branch and update that and make a MR to Ed for each release and he can have a new branch or tag of his examples for each new 
> > PETSc release.
> >
> >    Barry
> >
> >   We just make this part of our release process.
> 
> If we add it to CI, the workflow is
> 
> 1. Do work in the PETSc repository
> 2. Fork Ed's repository, create branch, update, and push
> 3. Point PETSc CI to the fork
> 4. Submit PETSc MR, review, and merge
> 5. Submit PR to Ed's repo, review, and merge
> 6. Update PETSc CI to once again point at Ed's "main" branch

we had similar workflow with petsc4py before it was merged into petsc repo.

primary difference: a branch in a fork vs branch in upstream petsc4py
[alternative to switch back and forth with fork vs main repo is always have the fork be mirrored..]

Satish