[Yt-dev] 2.2 release, new website, vacation

Casey W. Stark caseywstark at gmail.com
Mon Jun 20 14:16:07 PDT 2011


I love making screencasts. Any requests?


On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 2:08 PM, Matthew Turk <matthewturk at gmail.com> wrote:

> I'd be happy to help you with documenting reason; the reason I was
> ready to push that one off is that with a paper draft and a grant
> draft due before I leave, I can't write the whole thing myself.  A
> one-three minute screencast would be awesome, too, I think.
>
> If we can close the two reason tickets, I think we should push out a
> release.  All the other major features have either already been
> documented or require very little documentation, as I recall.  (i.e.,
> "yt mapserver")
>
> -Matt
>
> On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 1:05 PM, Cameron Hummels
> <chummels at astro.columbia.edu> wrote:
> > I can work on documenting some of Reason.  Do you think we should still
> try
> > to push the new version out by the end of June?
> >
> > On 6/20/11 3:59 PM, Matthew Turk wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi all,
> >>
> >> I'm writing with three points.
> >>
> >> 1) We had hoped for a release by the end of June.  There are three
> >> outstanding tickets [
> >> http://hg.enzotools.org/yt/issues?status=new&status=open&milestone=2.2
> >> ].
> >>
> >>   * Document reason
> >>   * Fix units for Nyx
> >>   * Fix field of view for reason slice/proj widget
> >>
> >> I'm not going to be able to look at these before the end of June.  The
> >> middle one might get pushed off, as it's blocked on some other
> >> developments.  So anybody that wants to step up and handle either the
> >> field of view or the reason documentation, please do so.  Anybody have
> >> any thoughts on this?
> >>
> >> 2) A few of us have created a prototype of a new website:
> >>
> >> http://yt.enzotools.org/prototype/
> >>
> >> to replace the old one.  The style was purchased from themeforest.net.
> >>  I am not yet convinced that this is a good idea, to move to a fancier
> >> layout, because I worry that too fancy and it looks unserious.  I
> >> can't tell if this site crosses that line.  I do like how it lays out
> >> the community, development, how to get it, and examples.  (The
> >> examples, I think, are particularly helpful.)  +1/-1?  The idea was to
> >> dump this at the end of the month when 2.2 came out, but if 2.2 is
> >> delayed, then this will not happen.
> >>
> >> Also, I'd be happy to grant write access to the page repo for this;
> >> it's private right now because I don't know how the copyright from
> >> themeforest works with publicly-viewable repositories, although in
> >> theory it's not any additional information that couldn't be gotten
> >> from the packages delivered when viewing the page.  The images I
> >> selected are ... biased towards ones I already had.  :)  So that might
> >> be a place to improve it, among other things ...
> >>
> >> 3) I am going on vacation starting sometime between June 29 and July
> >> 3, and I will be gone until at least July 23rd.  During that time I
> >> will have very, very limited access to email, and I do not anticipate
> >> being able to reply to any yt-users emails or make any software
> >> changes.  I will be able to reply, in a very limited fashion and with
> >> high latency, to direct email inquiries.
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >>
> >> Matt
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