Hi,<div><br></div><div>This is a great initiative. At this point, I think it would benefit the community to make the merging of future contributions as hassle-free as possible. I suggest using a decentralized VCS like git. If I recall correctly, the idea of moving QE onto github has been mentioned before. Perhaps now would be a good time to reconsider this option.<br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 2:43 AM, Stefano de Gironcoli <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:degironc@sissa.it" target="_blank">degironc@sissa.it</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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</b><b><br>
</b><b>- OPEN INVITATION TO CONTRIBUTE -</b><b><br>
</b><b><br>
</b><b>TO: All users and developers who would like to share their
independent</b><b><br>
</b><b>local developments of tools and features written for Quantum
ESPRESSO</b><b><br>
</b><b>package with the community. </b><b><br>
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Dear All,<br>
<br>
Quantum ESPRESSO (QE) is a very successful initiative thanks to the
effort<br>
and contribution of you, as developers and users, which we
gratefully<br>
acknowledge. Our community and software, in the spirit of open
source,<br>
has grown outside the borders of its initial creation. <br>
We are excited by the news of several independent developments,
analysis<br>
tools and new features that have been developed in excellent
research<br>
groups scattered around the globe.<br>
<br>
However, we have come to realize that some of these developments,<br>
although they would be of great value to the community, have not
found<br>
their way into the current distribution of QE package, and therefore
do<br>
not get their deserved visibility and recognition.<br>
<br>
One reason for this may be the legitimate interest of a group to
keep<br>
these developments private. We believe, however, that a more common<br>
reason is that these features have been implemented, often with some<br>
significant effort, in an outdated QE version: porting them to the<br>
current version would require a considerable effort. This, however,<br>
forces the potentially contributing group to use an outdated QE
version,<br>
thus preventing them from benefiting from new features and bug
fixes.<br>
We believe this is a problem that needs to be addressed.<br>
<br>
Of course, there is no easy solution but we would like to start
exploring<br>
some possible options. As a first practical action, we would like<br>
to compile an inventory of independent developments, in the form of<br>
features/analysis tools/developments, implemented in some version of
QE,<br>
that would be happily shared if the "porting issue" could be solved.<br>
<br>
The main purpose of this message is therefore to invite all
potentially<br>
interested contributors to send a statement of their possible
contribution<br>
to the address <a href="mailto:q-e-developers@qe-forge.org" target="_blank">q-e-developers@qe-forge.org</a>.<br>
<br>
Everybody willing to be involved (or to be kept updated) in this
process<br>
is welcome to subscribe to the q-e-developers mailing list<br>
(<a href="http://www.qe-forge.org/mailman/listinfo/q-e-developers" target="_blank">http://www.qe-forge.org/mailman/listinfo/q-e-developers</a>, see also<br>
CONTACTS section of <a href="http://www.quantum-espresso.org" target="_blank">www.quantum-espresso.org</a>).<br>
<br>
Best regards,<br>
<br>
Stefano de Gironcoli, Paolo Giannozzi, Layla MartinSamos, Emine
Kucukbenli, Stefano Baroni
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