[Q-e-developers] Anonymous SVN access [again]

[Filippo SPIGA]

On Apr 13, 2016, at 4:10 PM, Lorenzo Paulatto <lorenzo.paulatto at impmc.upmc.fr> wrote:
> Nevertheless, I used to recommend to students and collaborators to always work 
> on top of SVN, knowing that the pain of integrating a code written on top of 
> an old static version of QE would be worst than any transient instability of 
> the SVN version. Also, as it is usually falling on my shoulders, it may be 
> delayed until it is unpractical. I stress, also people working on clearly 
> separate projects, often hosted on the qe-forge, are affected as they cannot 
> keep the interface between their code and QE up to date.
> 
> I know that a GIT repository is supposed to exist somewhere (I could do one 
> myself, to be fair), I guess that having access to it can solve the points 1 
> and 2; but it is not as readily available as SVN used to be. I would really 
> like to have an official, simple way to allow people to access  (read-only) the 
> development files and their history.


Who are those people? Do you have names to tell us?

The simple way/procedure is the following: if we receive an inquiry via "support at qe-forge.org" then we ask the person to REGISTER to qe-forge (if not done already) and then I authorize everybody needs for a good reason (not just curiosity). Process this requires less than a day (I do not live in front of a computer, so it is not a immediate procedure). Then those new users can access the q-e-private and keep aligned their own private code when they want and how they want.

I believe is very simple.

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Mr. Filippo SPIGA, M.Sc.
Quantum ESPRESSO Foundation
http://www.quantum-espresso.org ~ skype: filippo.spiga

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