[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

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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