[yt-dev] 2.5 release

[Christopher Moody]

I've been developing on yt-3.0 on my own fork, so I'm eager to have this
discussion whenever it's convenient. What's the rough timeline for the enzo
point release?

chris


On Sun, Nov 25, 2012 at 11:59 AM, Cameron Hummels <chummels at gmail.com>wrote:

> I say hold off on yt 2.5 release discussions until a week after enzo point
> release is done, but yes, potentially a release seems possible before the
> holiday break.
>
> Cameron
>
>
> On Sun, Nov 25, 2012 at 12:53 PM, Nathan Goldbaum <nathan12343 at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> A lot of really great work has already or is just about to be been merged
>> into yt since we did our last release in August.  Just a few examples:
>>
>> Unit Tests and improved answer tests with continuous integration
>> Rockstar
>> Numerous PlotWindow fixes and improvements
>> Improved Athena support
>> spherical and cylindrical coordinates and vector coordinate
>> transformations
>> Particle support for FLASH data
>> Limited support for generating GDF initial conditions
>> Improved support for 2D FLASH data.
>> PlotWindow TimeSeries interface
>> Numerous bug fixes
>>
>> The obvious holdup to a release is the number of open issues marked for
>> 2.5.  I think the idea was to make the 2.5 release the last in the 2.X
>> series before moving all development over to yt 3.0.  Is that still the
>> plan?  Is it possible to get a 2.5 release out while delaying the end of
>> 2.X development to a 2.6 release?
>>
>> The reason I bring all this up is mostly for the plot window fixes -
>> we've improved it a lot since August and I think it's much more usable now.
>>  Perhaps a new release and a blog post about the new plotting interface
>> will encourage more people to switch over.
>>
>> I'm curious what everyone thinks about this.  I know many of you are busy
>> with the enzo 2.2 release and probably don't want to make another big push
>> so soon.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Nathan
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