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

[Cameron Hummels]

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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