[Paraview-developers] ANN: All ParaView commits through the topic stage

[Marcus D. Hanwell]

Hi,

As previously announced on September 23, the ParaView topic stage is available 
to merge in topic branches. From Thursday October 14 all commits to ParaView 
will need to be made through the topic stage, and direct pushes to the 
ParaView repository will be disabled. Please note that staged topics for Git 
submodules must be merged before those in ParaView are merged.

Please see the relevant section on the ParaView wiki for further details,

http://www.vtk.org/Wiki/ParaView/Git#Topic_Stage

If you have any commits on your local master, they can easily be made into
topic branches with a one line command (on your local master),

git checkout -b my_topic

The topic my_topic will now point to a topic branch containing the commits
that were on your local master. To see what commits would be pushed to the
topic stage you can use,

git fetch origin
git log origin/master..

You are encouraged to begin using the stage immediately, direct pushes will be 
disabled on Thursday. Everyone with push access to ParaView has push access
to the stage. The next branch has not yet been added - this is planned once a 
few more issues with multiple integration branches have been ironed out.

Please let us know if you have any problems using the topic stage. I plan on
adding some convenience scripts and macros, similar to the ones used in Titan
and ITK, to simplify the process for those wishing to use them.

Thanks,

Marcus
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Marcus D. Hanwell, Ph.D.
R&D Engineer, Kitware Inc.
(518) 881-4937