Dear Samuel, thank you for your message! at the moment QE is under svn, which offers enough flexibility: directory dependent read/write access, branching, svn propedit external.... Anybody who wants to contribute can get write access, can have its own branch, can define an independent project that can be download automatically defining svn propedit external..... The point is not git versus svn, but to help people willing to contribute! <br>
<br>cheers<br><br>Layla<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2012/10/2 Samuel Huberman <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:samuel.huberman@utoronto.ca" target="_blank">samuel.huberman@utoronto.ca</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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"><div><div class="h5">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>- 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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