SOLVCON project moved from bitbucket to github

[Yung-Yu Chen]

Per the discussion in yesterday’s seminar (https://solvcon.github.io/seminar/2015/first/index.html), we decided to move the project from bitbucket/hg to github/git. We itemized the pros and cons:

- Github is more popular.
- Github provides project pages, which is convenient. Bitbucket was requested to support it but nothing happened for years.
- Much more 3rd-party services are available for Github than for Bitbucket. Many of them are free. For example, TravisCI (it’s an important CI service that we should employ.)
- Git doesn’t have the nice feature like Mercurial Queue and phases.

Then the conclusion is: let’s go try how good Github will give us.

I have moved the project repository, as well as all issues, from Bitbucket to Github. The new project page is at https://github.com/solvcon/solvcon . The old location (https://bitbucket.org/solvcon/solvcon) is replaced with a placeholder pointing the Github. The old repository is backed up to an alternate location: https://bitbucket.org/solvcon/solvcon-backup . All write permissions to the back-up repository were revoked, except mine.

At Github SOLVCON has an organization: https://github.com/solvcon . It contains more repositories than the project one. We plan to make use of the good features that Github provides to facilitate the code as well as the community development.

And then we will change to use Git instead of Mercurial as version control tool.

yyc

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Yung-Yu Chen
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