2012-01-25

software repository, licensing

Inspired by emails from Stumm and Foreman-Mackey, Lang and I had a long conversation about software repositories: SVN vs GIT, in the cloud vs at home, one repository or many, what level of organization, and so on. It is a difficult set of problems, and different solutions serve and support different kinds of development styles and communities. We have decided to migrate one sub-project from the Astrometry.net SVN repository to a github GIT repository as a test balloon, and that led to a round of the endless discussion of licenses. Someone needs to write the document software licensing for astronomers and be done with it!

In the afternoon, I started to read Bovy's latest manuscript about chemical-abundance sub-populations in the Milky Way disk, but now in velocity space.

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