[Paraview-developers] On user submodule status

[Brad King]

On 06/03/2012 02:30 PM, Biddiscombe, John A. wrote:
> the work I did on upgrading HDF5 was ignored by kitware and
> instead of using the svn branch from the hdfgroup was hacked
> up and all branch/merge information lost for me, thus losing
> the fixes we needed for nice external hdf5 build break.

The method we used to import upstream hdf5 didn't preserve your
original commits but it does allow us to update from upstream
quite easily no matter what changes have been made in our copy
or upstream.  This is explained in the readme:

 http://vtk.org/gitweb?p=VTK.git;a=blob;f=Utilities/vtkhdf5/README-VTK.txt;hb=v5.10.0

I was not aware anything we need was not brought in.  If you
have additional changes that need to be made you're welcome to
submit them through our normal development process:

 http://www.vtk.org/Wiki/VTK/Git/Develop

> in order to get an “OpenID” I had to give my cellphone number
> and until recently I didn’t use a cellphone so was excluded
> and I’m not happy about putting it into some google web thingy

Google is not the only OpenID provider, but I don't recall
providing a cell phone number for anything.

Step 1 of VTK's Git developer instructions (linked above)
is to register for Gerrit access, and links here:

 http://www.vtk.org/Wiki/VTK/Git/Account#Gerrit

Step 1 of the registration process links here:

 http://openid.net/get-an-openid/

There are many providers from which to choose.

-Brad