[yt-dev] Timeline and Issues for 2.3 Release

Matthew Turk matthewturk at gmail.com
Wed Nov 16 10:58:36 PST 2011


Hi Sam,

On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 9:56 AM, Sam Skillman <samskillman at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
> After the totally awesome G+ hangout, we've made a few decisions on the
> upcoming 2.3 release.

Thank you so much for taking this on!

> First of all, we have set a deadline of December 15th.
> Out of the "new stuff since 2.2", shown below, I have created documentation
> issues
> https://bitbucket.org/yt_analysis/yt/issues?status=new&status=open&milestone=2.3
> for each feature (except the bug fixes).  In order for the feature to be
> included in the 2.3 release, the corresponding documentation issue must be
> closed.  Stay tuned for Jeff's email describing what is needed for a
> documentation issue to be closed.  If on the 15th a given feature has not
> been passed through this process, it will be bumped to 2.4.

My understanding is that this is the metric for including items in the
release *announcement*, right?  Not necessarily for removing items.

-Matt

> I have assigned many of the tasks to individual people, but there are a few
> that have not yet been assigned.  If you see your feature on that list,
> assign it to yourself and start documenting!
> New stuff since 2.2:
>  * Multi-level parallelism
>  * Real, extensive answer tests
>  * Boolean data regions
>  * Isocontours / flux calculations
>  * "deliberate_field" branch merge (pending PR)
>  * PHOP memory improvements
>  * Bug fixes for tests
>  * Parallel data loading for RAMSES, along with other speedups and
> improvements there
>  * Performance improvements for volume rendering
>  * (beta) Rockstar interoperability
>  * Adaptive HEALpix support (with a few bugs left)
>  * Column density calculations
>  * Massive speedup for 1D profiles
>  * Lots more, bug fixes etc.  (Including a bug fix for the tests!)
>  * Re-organization of Docs/Website
>
> Your Diamond Manifold Overlord,
> Sam
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