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

[Simon Binnie]

I don't think tinkering with the VCS is going to help all that much. I  
should point out though that people who want to use git (I personally  
quite like it and the slightly more hassle free way it merges changes) can  
already do so through the git-svn interface. Though I'd recommend taking  
quite a shallow copy when you make your initial clone as importing the  
whole of the current SVN tree will take a *long* time.

Simon


On Tue, 02 Oct 2012 17:21:23 +0200, Samuel Huberman  
<samuel.huberman at utoronto.ca> wrote:

> 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 significant effort, in an outdated QE version: porting them to the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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