[yt-dev] Prep for 2.4

[John ZuHone]

I'm game as well for any day Monday through Wednesday.

John ZuHone
Laboratory for High-Energy Astrophysics
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On Jul 7, 2012, at 8:48 AM, Britton Smith <brittonsmith at gmail.com> wrote:

> I'm up for meeting on IRC, and perhaps even kicking that off with a hangout to solidify a plan.  I have one ticket specifically assigned to me and I will try to get that knocked out in the next few days.
> 
> On Fri, Jul 6, 2012 at 7:06 PM, Nathan Goldbaum <goldbaum at ucolick.org> wrote:
> Perhaps we should set a date when we will all be on IRC to work through this list.
> 
> I'm free every day next week except for Thursday.
> 
> Nathan Goldbaum
> Graduate Student
> Astronomy & Astrophysics, UCSC
> goldbaum at ucolick.org
> http://www.ucolick.org/~goldbaum
> 
> On Jul 6, 2012, at 4:03 PM, Matthew Turk wrote:
> 
> > Hi all,
> >
> > A few of us have been working on documentation in preparation for
> > releasing yt 2.4.  I believe docs are the major change at this point,
> > and once we have those in line we can pull the trigger.  The items
> > below still need to be handled, and we'd really appreciate anybody
> > that wants to pitch in.  The doc repository is at
> > https://bitbucket.org/yt_analysis/yt-doc .  Please feel free to add
> > items, edit existing docs, remove cruft, and whatever else seems
> > appropriate.
> >
> > 1) Every single function or class imported in yt.mods needs to have at
> > least a simple docstring that summarizes what it does.  I'd prefer
> > these all be of the numpy docstring standard (see
> > docs/example_docstring.rst)
> >
> > Can a few volunteers examine the stuff in yt/mods.py and see if they
> > can help out adding docstrings?
> >
> > 2) What used to be "cookbook examples" in the docs are being
> > transformed into "simple scripts," and cookbook scripts are being
> > pulled out and put in a different place (you can see this in the
> > yt_analysis/cookbook repo, which will have something like this:
> > http://yt-project.org/cookbook/ ) .  The simple scripts are being
> > converted to use the more complex datasets from the workshop datasets.
> > Each will then be included manually.  Nathan and I are handling
> > these.
> >
> > If anyone wants to take a crack at adding more *simple* scripts to
> > both source/cookbook/ as .py files, that would be helpful.  We could
> > use things like "getting enclosed mass" and "how to save out profiles
> > to disk" and "setting colorbars" and whatnot, but nothing too complex.
> >
> > 3) The workshop page still has to be added -- this is basically a
> > version of this section: http://yt-project.org/workshop2012/#workshop
> > where we have a list
> >
> > 4) The narrative docs should be converted to reference PlotWindow,
> > rather than PlotCollection (wherever possible, although for now
> > callbacks do not work with PlotWindow).  I think Nathan might tackle
> > this.
> >
> > 5) The Volume Rendering docs need to be updated to be, well, in line
> > with current best practices.
> >
> > 6) Low-level data inspection docs should be added.
> >
> > 7) ...anything else?
> >
> > =
> >
> > Here are the remaining tickets:
> >
> > https://bitbucket.org/yt_analysis/yt/issues?status=new&status=open&milestone=2.4
> >
> > and the current draft of the changelog:
> > http://paste.yt-project.org/show/MfdV3E8s2H7pc1pC3mVp/  .  If you have
> > additions, please feel free to reply with them!
> >
> > I'm going to prepare some (html) slides that lay out new features,
> > describe changes in behavior, and have examples.
> >
> > Does anyone have any comments or suggestions?
> >
> > -Matt
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