[yt-dev] Finishing up the 2.4 release

John Zuhone jzuhone at gmail.com
Mon Jul 30 08:23:17 PDT 2012


Hi Matt,

You mean just in this Enzo special case or in general?

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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John ZuHone

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NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center

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