Re: [cctbxbb] Not wishing to raise this again but...

Hi Rob, I think this is an important point you make. Given that there are now a number of projects making heavy use of the cctbx (both using and contributing) with competing development and release schedules, the current paradigm of everyone developing on trunk is liable to cause problems. Moving to git should make things easier in this regard, although we would still have to agree on suitable working practices within the new system. Cheers, Richard Dr Richard Gildea Data Analysis Scientist Tel: +441235 77 8078 Diamond Light Source Ltd. Diamond House Harwell Science & Innovation Campus Didcot Oxfordshire OX11 0DE ________________________________________ From: [email protected] [[email protected]] on behalf of R.D. Oeffner [[email protected]] Sent: 15 June 2016 11:27 To: [email protected]; phenixdev Subject: [cctbxbb] Not wishing to raise this again but... Personally I think moving the cctbx to git is a great idea as it would make it easier and safer when developing and testing new features. Given so many teams are using the cctbx this seems like a compelling reason for it to be moved. We had a chat a while ago with Berkeley about this but I've forgotten what the consensus was. Rob

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Hi All,

This sounds like it is heading in a pragmatic direction - I would find it very helpful to gauge feeling for or against this. To make this simple I have attempted (starting from a completely ignorant position) to put together one of those online survey things:

https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/GXPY5JW

If you could pick an option that would be great, explaining why would be even better, or hitting reply-all to this thread would also work (as has previously done so) I'll collate answers over the next few days & feed back when we have (say) 10-20 or a few days have passed

...

From experience with moving xia2 & DIALS it was surprisingly straightforward (an opinion)

Thanks & cheerio Graeme

-----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of [email protected] Sent: 14 June 2016 12:18 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [cctbxbb] Not wishing to raise this again but...

Hi Pavel,

I volunteered to do this some time ago, just like for DIALS, and would still be happy to do this. We can do the move slowly, so allow users (developers) with a git repository while development still happens in SVN for say a couple of weeks, and I would be happy to run the git support for that time and for the aftermath of the move.

Best wishes -Markus

-----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Pavel Afonine Sent: 14 June 2016 12:11 To: cctbx mailing list Subject: Re: [cctbxbb] Not wishing to raise this again but...

Hey there!

Well I guess I say something even though I don't have much to say really. I've been contributing to CCTBX for the past 13 years, so I feel like this conversation is not too irrelevant to me to say the least.

I don't have strong opinion about staying with svn vs moving to git. I routinely contribute to CCTBX (which is SVN-based) and I routinely contribute to my other activity - Q|R (Quantum Refinement, which is hosted by GitHub). I'm comfortable with both environments as I'm using only the minimal functionality of both: check in, check out, diff.. period. I'm not interested in branching/etc sophistication; this is just because the way I structure my workflow..

My current understanding is that moving CCTBX to use git boils down to: - actually someone doing it; AND - taking good proper responsible care of the aftermath (if any).

So far no-one volunteered to embrace this challenge, as far as I know.

In summary I think we should move to git, at least to follow the vector of progress.

All the best, Pavel

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