On Thu, 9 Feb 2012, Satish Balay wrote:

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Credential management is simpler because adding/removing keys and similar can be done by the user instead of by emailing Satish.

replaced by 'crate a bitbucket account - and email sean your bitbucket id'

so eqivalent.

ok - I see your point. First step is equivalent. Later change of keys/passwd is up to the user and doesn't involve e-mail [ with bitbucket.] Satish

Satish

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I'm not deeply invested either way, but I'm not seeing a compelling argument not to use it. Many of the things you are requesting (separate clones for each release, directory hierarchies to get to the repository) would be considered "quirks" by other projects. I don't think PETSc is that "special" that it needs to use different repository management.

That said, I'm not deeply invested and would rather write code than argue about where to store it.