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

[Matthew Turk]

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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