[Halld-offline] Splitting sim-recon: push your changes by 5 pm today (Mon. July 30) [Re: push deadline postponed; new deadline to be discussed]

[Mark Ito]

Folks,

Now that the reconstruction launch is underway, we are in a position to 
do the repository split. All branches of sim-recon will be brought 
across to the two new repositories, namely halld_recon and halld_sim.

Please do your pushes to your branches by 5 pm today. After that writes 
to the sim-recon repository will not be allowed.

Also, I put together a wiki page where I have tried to collect the 
discussion around this action. Find it at

   https://halldweb.jlab.org/wiki/index.php/Splitting_sim-recon

   -- Mark

On 07/23/2018 01:52 PM, Mark Ito wrote:
> Folks,
>
> Never mind...again...
>
> Preparations for the next reconstruction launch are entering their 
> final stages and those involved all have working builds of sim-recon, 
> with more changes being contemplated. Doing the split right now, 
> disallowing further changes to sim-recon, would likely slow progress.
>
> We will discuss a new schedule for splitting sim-recon at tomorrow's 
> Offline Meeting.
>
>   -- Mark
>
> On 07/23/2018 01:39 PM, Mark Ito wrote:
>> Reminder...please complete your pushes to sim-recon by 5 pm today.
>>
>>
>> On 07/20/2018 05:30 PM, Mark Ito wrote:
>>> Folks,
>>>
>>> We have decided to postpone the deadline for pushes to sim-recon 
>>> again. The new deadline is 5 pm, Monday, July 23. There are several 
>>> reasons for delay, not least of which is to avoid a Friday afternoon 
>>> software incident.
>>>
>>> Also, we have improved the split method. Now branches of sim-recon 
>>> will survive the transition to both the halld_sim and halld_recon 
>>> repositories. The requirement that sim changes be merged onto the 
>>> master branch (mentioned previously) is therefore relaxed.
>>>
>>> Have a nice weekend.
>>>
>>>   -- Mark
>>>
>>>
>>> On 07/17/2018 10:52 AM, Mark Ito wrote:
>>>> Folks,
>>>>
>>>> I have received a private communication. Due to issues with 
>>>> preparations for the upcoming reconstruction launch, we are 
>>>> postponing the split of the sim-recon repository. The new deadline 
>>>> for pushing your changes is this Friday, July 20, at 5 pm.
>>>>
>>>>   -- Mark
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 07/16/2018 03:03 PM, Mark Ito wrote:
>>>>> Folks,
>>>>>
>>>>> Recall that at COB tomorrow (Tue. July 17), we will disable pushes 
>>>>> to the sim-recon repository on GitHub. If you have changes, you 
>>>>> should push them before then. In particular, if you have changes 
>>>>> to the "sim" directories (see below) you need to get them onto the 
>>>>> master branch by submitting a pull request. The "sim" directories 
>>>>> are:
>>>>>
>>>>> src/programs/Simulation
>>>>> src/programs/AmplitudeAnalysis
>>>>> src/plugins/Simulation
>>>>> src/libraries/AMPTOOLS_AMPS
>>>>> src/libraries/AMPTOOLS_DATAIO
>>>>> src/libraries/AMPTOOLS_MCGEN
>>>>>
>>>>> In all other directories, the "recon" ones, changes pushed to 
>>>>> sim-recon branch will survive the transition to the new "recon" 
>>>>> repository on an identically named branch.
>>>>>
>>>>> Once the split is made, changes left behind will be able to go 
>>>>> forward with extraordinary measures, but we would like to avoid 
>>>>> that if possible.
>>>>>
>>>>>   -- Mark
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>
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