[yt-dev] 2.5 release next Thursday

[Nathan Goldbaum]

With all the activity today we're down to 10 open issues for the 2.5 release!

https://bitbucket.org/yt_analysis/yt/issues?milestone=2.5&milestone=&status=open&status=new&version=2.5

On Feb 7, 2013, at 12:25 PM, Matthew Turk wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> Okay, after a discussion in IRC about releasing 2.5, we've decided to
> just start pushing ahead.  I'd like to propose ([+-][01]) that we set
> a hard cutoff of a week from today, Valentine's day.  If anything
> doesn't make it in, that's fine.  We just put out a release without it
> and wrap it up in 2.6.  (Yeah, we probably need a 2.6.)
> 
> The remaining blockers:
> 
> * I want Andrew's pull request to make it in.  This is a huge win for
> everyone.  Once it's in, we can add documentation about it, and then
> it'll be a big feature.
> * John ZuHone has an outstanding piece of code that builds Enzo data
> from in-memory hierarchies.  I would like to see this make it in, but
> it is worth a release all by itself.
> * The remaining tickets are mostly all documentation based.  We need:
> bootcamp in the docs, rotation information in the docs,
> offaxisprojection in the docs.
> * We have a need for answer testing for Orion, FLASH, NYX and
> optionally GDF datasets.  I have been the bottleneck here.  If you
> have pinged me in the past, ping me again and I will do this with you.
> If we don't get to this by 14th, this will be bumped.
> 
> However: after 2.5 goes out, I would like for us to stop doing *major*
> features on the 2.x branch and try to focus on 3.0.  This may not be
> possible for all things, but I would like to try to push for that.  At
> a bare minimum, every new feature in 2.6 should be well-tested enough
> that we can run those tests on 3.0 to determine if it is directly
> portable.  And future-compatible requirements will be in place for new
> features in 2.6.
> 
> Also, I'd like to nominate John ZuHone to send out the release
> announcement, particularly since he has worked so hard to put together
> initial conditions generation in this release.
> 
> -Matt
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