[yt-dev] Finishing up the 2.4 release

[John ZuHone]

I'm willing to take on the entropy field along the lines of what Greg suggested, but I still wonder if we should try to incorporate spatially varying gammas. I assume this is something that is not possible in Enzo, I guess, but I don't know about other codes. 

I assume this could be handled by checking whether or not "gamma" is defined as a runtime parameter, or checking the field list for the gamma fields.

Thoughts?

On Jul 28, 2012, at 6:37 PM, Nathan Goldbaum <nathan12343 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hey everybody,
> 
> I hope you're all enjoying your weekend and don't mind taking some time out of it to think about yt.
> 
> Right now there are only three open tickets for the 2.4 release:
> 
> 1. The entropy field in non-enzo data
> 2. Transfer function bounds
> 3. Volume rendering docs
> 
> I think these tickets are things that are fixable on a short timescale.  Sam, please let us know if you need more time or help with the volume rendering docs.
> 
> We've put a lot of time into updating the cookbook and making sure the scripts produce good-looking images based on a variety of datasets.  The latest version of the docs is available here: http://yt-project.org/docs/2.4/
> 
> I'm curious how everyone feels about setting a time aside sometime this week to do the official release.  I think the release will attract more eyeballs if we can point to screencasts about some of the new functionality, including (but not limited to, see the changelog <http://yt-project.org/docs/2.4/changelog.html#version-2-4> for the full [really extensive and impressive] list of changes):
> 
> 1. Threaded volume renderer
> 2. Plot window
> 3. Improved time series analysis
> 4. Improved extjs4 reason
> 5. The new yt hub
> 
> I'm planning on doing a plot window screencast this afternoon. Does anyone else want to claim one of the features?
> 
> Lastly, I contacted Kelle Cruz at astrobetter about going a guest post about the yt 2.4 release.  She is interested - all she needs from us is a google doc with a draft of the post, including text embedded videos, and urls.  I'm going to begin the write up sometime this week and then share the google doc on the yt-dev list so that others can contribute.
> 
> The end is in sight!  This will be by far the best release of yt yet :)
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Nathan
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