[Q-e-developers] [Pw_users] IMPORTANT: QE Open Invitation to Contribute

[Layla Martin-Samos]

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!

cheers

Layla

2012/10/2 Samuel Huberman <samuel.huberman at utoronto.ca>

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 significant effort, in an outdated QE version: porting them to the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 forces the potentially contributing group to use an outdated QE version,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