VMD-L Mailing List

From: Ivan Gregoretti (ivangreg_at_gmail.com)
Date: Mon Jul 30 2018 - 11:33:01 CDT

Hi Giacomo.

I think that migrating to Git is a good idea. It feels like the right
thing to do in 2018.

Git might be more attractive than CVS to the younger generation of
users and contributors.

I am thinking of student interns as an example. Blessed be all of
them. They have great ideas and they speak Git nowadays.

What do people think?

Thank you.

Ivan
PS: VMD is jealous because only NAMD got a Gerrit privilege. :)

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On Mon, Jul 30, 2018 at 9:40 AM, Giacomo Fiorin
<giacomo.fiorin_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> This is not a reply to the previous message, whose author didn't ask for
> one.
>
> For other readers of the list, NAMD has a Gerrit portal:
> https://charm.cs.illinois.edu/gerrit/#/q/project:namd
>
> The code base of VMD still uses CVS, but this is easy to track it with a
> private Git repository, from which John integrates changes.
>
>
> On Sun, Jul 29, 2018 at 3:19 PM Vlastimil Zíma <zima_at_karlov.mff.cuni.cz>
> wrote:
>>
>> Hi everybody,
>>
>> as I'm finishing my PhD and heading out of world of molecular dynamics, I
>> will most likely no longer use VMD.
>>
>> I've tried several times to provide patches to VMD, but since it's so
>> cumbersome, I'll put my effort into some other project. As I work as a
>> programmer for several years now and also participate in open source
>> projects I can only recommend to open the VMD source code to more
>> developers. Using CVS and having patches send over email is a terrible
>> approach when there are services such as GitHub, GitLab, BitBucket and
>> others and modern version control systems.
>>
>> All my molecular dynamics related projects are now open for new
>> maintainers, as I most likely will no longer support them:
>> * https://github.com/ziima/pyvmd
>> * https://github.com/ziima/vmd-debian
>> * https://github.com/ziima/namd-debian
>> Well, all my projects at github are open for contributions, you can check
>> any of those at https://github.com/ziima/
>>
>> Best wishes
>> Vlastimil Zíma
>
>
>
> --
> Giacomo Fiorin
> Associate Professor of Research, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA
> Contractor, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD
> http://goo.gl/Q3TBQU
> https://github.com/giacomofiorin