[yt-dev] Finishing up the 2.4 release

[Matthew Turk]

On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 11:23 AM, John Zuhone <jzuhone at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Matt,
>
> You mean just in this Enzo special case or in general?

I just meant I don't think we should have a full EOS calculation
included right now, but maybe I am misunderstanding.

>
> John
>
>
> On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 6:58 AM, Matthew Turk <matthewturk at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi John,
>>
>> On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 1:45 AM, John ZuHone <jzuhone at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > 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.
>>
>> Enzo (when run with multiple species) does have a spatially varying
>> gamma, but it's not written out to the file -- it's calculated from
>> partial pressure and includes contributions from H2 as well.  I would
>> say that this shouldn't be dealt with directly, though.
>>
>> >
>> > 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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