[yt-dev] 2.6 release?

[Nathan Goldbaum]

My main concern is that I’m not happy with the current state of ProfilePlot and PhasePlot going out as they exist in the open PR.  That’s not a dig on Britton - he did a great job - I just think we can do better and provide something that’s fully functional and tested.

That said, I don’t think that can happen by Friday.  As I’ve said elsewhere I’m happy to look at ProfilePlot and PhasePlot this weekend.

Britton, please don’t let this stop you from updating the docs for ProfilePlot and PhasePlot.  If anything breaks in your docs (I expect it won’t) I will update the docs myself.

-Nathan
On November 11, 2013 at 10:53:37 AM, Matthew Turk (matthewturk at gmail.com) wrote:

Hi Nathan,  

Well, so, I have to take the fall for this one. Last week, there was  
some discussion about what needed to happen for a release, and I  
misunderstood everything, evidently! I thought that the main issue  
was the profile/phase plot code and the remaining doc tickets. So  
this weekend, Britton issued the updated PR (which addressed the  
comments you brought up in your original comments on the PR) and was  
doing some docs updates.  

This morning, I took a look at what was going on, and wrote to Cameron  
asking him to decide which bugs for the docs were blockers and which  
were not, and if we could try to aim for having everything in a  
workable state by Friday, so the release could go out. (Only a few  
weeks overdue -- and most of those weeks were due to *me* dragging my  
heels!)  

My main concern here is: people are putting out job apps, and some of  
those job apps reference code that's in the yt 2.6 code base. I think  
a good way to "do right by contributors" is to make sure that,  
especially in a vulnerable time in a career, the project tries to  
support them in whatever way it can. I've done a poor job of  
implementing that, as releases have languished and gone on, and I was  
just trying to right the ship, as it were. Ultimately, though, I do  
think we should not release something we're not really happy with,  
although I'd like to try to avoid having perfect be the enemy of good  
enough. Maybe a good compromise would be to figure out what is still  
necessary, come up with a reasonable timescale, and discuss it openly.  
I screwed that up, and I'm sorry.  

Anyway, I know there's been a lot of talk about 2.6 being the last  
major 2.X release. Maybe that's put some pressure on this release  
that's not warranted, and I will take the blame for that, too. I  
anticipate we'll be fixing little things, tweaking docs, and on and  
on, for some time to come. Just because I would like to encourage  
people to try out 3.0 doesn't mean everybody has to stop using what  
works. I expect much of our existing userbase won't change for a  
while.  

-Matt  

On Mon, Nov 11, 2013 at 12:42 PM, Nathan Goldbaum <nathan12343 at gmail.com> wrote:  
> Hi all,  
>  
> Cameron just pinged me about a docs issue with a Sizemore about the 2.6  
> release happening on Friday. Can we hold off on that for another week or  
> two? I'd like to be able to work on ProfilePlot and PhasePlot this weekend.  
>  
> Natha  
>  
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