[yt-dev] 2.5 release next Thursday

[Matthew Turk]

Hi all,

Here's the timeline for releasing 2.5:

1) Hopefully today the four outstanding PRs will be finished (One of
mine for docs, one of mine for docstrings, Kacper's GDF, and Cameron's
halo PR)
2) I'll merge to stable, tag and push today, thus "releasing" the
code, once those PRs are done
3) I'll upload a tarball to PyPI over the [long] weekend and docs to the website
4) On Tuesday, since Monday is a holiday, John ZuHone will send out an
email to the usual suspects

The slower pace here, from PRs -> tag -> announcement, gives us a
chance to work out any last minute kinks or problems.  Thanks for your
patience!

-Matt

On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 12:28 PM, Matthew Turk <matthewturk at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 3:29 AM, Nathan Goldbaum <nathan12343 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> It looks like we're almost done:
>> https://bitbucket.org/yt_analysis/yt/issues?milestone=2.5&milestone=&status=open&status=new&version=2.5
>>
>> Matt, please let us know if you'd like help with any of those issues.
>
> What I'd like the most help with is figuring out anything that is
> important that is missing from yt-doc/source/api/api.rst .  Almost
> everything else is done or in progress.  I've removed a few items from
> api.rst as well, since not everything really needs to be in there.
>
>>
>> I've been looking over the changelog and list of pull requests since the
>> last release.  Since last august, when we released 2.4, we've processed an
>> astounding 195 pull requests, totaling 1056 changesets from 27 contributors.
>> This isn't the largest release by number of lines or changsets, but it is by
>> number of pull requests and number of contributors, reflecting yt's
>> increasing role as a community-developed code.  Some fun commands to play
>> around with:
>
> Yup, pretty cool.  I'm really pleased with this release and what it
> means for us.
>
>>
>> $ hg churn -r -c yt-2.3:yt-2.4
>> $ hg churn -r -c yt-2.4:.
>>
>> Well done everyone, I think this is a release that we can all be proud of.
>>
>
> -Matt
>
>>
>> On Thu, Feb 7, 2013 at 2:57 PM, Nathan Goldbaum <nathan12343 at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> 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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