[yt-dev] 2.6 release?

[Britton Smith]

Waiting on the PR is totally fine with me.  Let's get that stuff right
before we release it.  I will definitely keep working the docs for it and
have those ready for when the Profile/PhasePlot PR is ready.

That stuff aside, maybe here is where everyone should report in with what
they'd like/need to get done before the 2.6 release and when they would
like that release to take place.  For me, other than any additional tweaks
I might have to make to the Profile/Phase PR, my remaining assignments are
all in the docs and I should be able to get them all done this week.

Finally, I would like to add a proposal that we allow for some additional
doc tweaking after the official 2.6 release.  We should definitely finish
all of the blocker issues that have been laid out before releasing, but
there will surely be small things that can be improved on that we might
happen across at some later date.  As this release or one soon after will
be the final 2.x release, I would like to leave it as close to a finished
product as possible.

Britton


On Mon, Nov 11, 2013 at 6:57 PM, Nathan Goldbaum <nathan12343 at gmail.com>wrote:

> 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<//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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