On Thu, 3 Nov 2005, Matthew Knepley wrote:

Simon Burton <[email protected]> writes:

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On Thu, 03 Nov 2005 17:49:46 -0600 Matthew Knepley <[email protected]> wrote:

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Simon Burton <[email protected]> writes:

This was patched in 2.3.0, but maybe you have an unpatched version. It is easy to check. The symbol comes from

We have been tracking your bitkeeper repository. I don't know if this is sane or not because we want to release something (in a few weeks) and that basically means it is up to us to somehow stabilize PETSc, or at least "bless" some particular version of PETSc.

No, that doesn't sound right either: fixes that you guys make will go into the bk repository, so... I guess what I am asking is, are we just insane to try and do this ? Or, is it possible to maybe branch your repository so we can stabilize PETSc for some kind of beta release ?

This is our preference. Why? It is jsut as stable as tarballs because you can clone to any particular revision, BUT its more flexible because you can easily pull any fixes or upgrades.

Unless we are moving away from making any more releases - we should make a release for this.. It would be a bit difficult to manage patches for 2 relases but this might be better than folks having different dev-snapshots [and we trying to keep track of these bugreports]..

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Sounds like we just need to make it clear that petsc is on the move and that you guys are completely responsive to bug reports, etc.

We are going to build a "petsc doesn't work" FAQ, but, gee i wish your email list (petsc-maint) was archived somewhere...

The DOE really frowns on this I believe. We discuss a lot of DOE internal stuff on it. However, it there were an archived list to Cc, we could talk about doing that.

We can have publically archived mailing lists for eg: http://www-unix.mcs.anl.gov/web-mail-archive/lists/mpich-discuss/threads.htm... But currently petsc-dev list archives are available only locally. And petsc-maint is a 'bug-tracker' - not a mailing list. The archives of this are also available locally only. I'm checking if we can upgrade to a better bug tracker - with both public/private entries [like bugzilla]. But.... Satish

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If you start getting 10 more support queires a day can you handle that ? What about 50 ? Maybe I can also act as a gateway, if I tell our users to come to me first.

Well, we get anywhere from 50-200 per day, so I think we can probably handle some more. In my experience there are a lot up front with a new community,but it rapidly tails off.

Matt