[yt-dev] proposing a yt-3.2 release

Thu Jul 9 11:30:06 PDT 2015

I’m happy to devote effort for the rest of this week and next to finish the Python 3 stuff up. 

Kacper, where do we stand on Python 3 testing?

> On Jul 9, 2015, at 2:16 PM, Nathan Goldbaum <nathan12343 at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Thu, Jul 9, 2015 at 11:12 AM, John ZuHone <jzuhone at gmail.com <mailto:jzuhone at gmail.com>> wrote:
> We do have one blocker, at least from my point of view. At the moment I am -1.
> 
> We have done a lot of work to get a single yt codebase for Python 2 and 3, but we have not (to my knowledge) had a single test run where all tests are passing under Python 3, including answer tests.
> 
> Since the Python 3 stuff is everywhere in the code, we need to verify that all the tests pass (I bet they won’t just yet) before we release.
> 
> Also, we don’t yet know if “yt update” and “yt instinfo” will work under Python 3 (though I’m happy to find out).
> 
> I brought this up while talking to Britton earlier. I agree that ideally the python3 stuff would need to be shored up for 3.2, including full testing.
> 
> That said, one way to get around this is to say 3.2 has preliminary beta-level support for python3, but that will support will come in 3.3 (or even in a 3.2.1 release).
> 
> If we can quickly-ish get full python3 support then great, I just don't want to be blocked on developer time for a while.
> 
> -Nathan
>  
> 
> Best,
> 
> John
> 
> > On Jul 9, 2015, at 2:08 PM, Matthew Turk <matthewturk at gmail.com <mailto:matthewturk at gmail.com>> wrote:
> >
> > +1
> >
> > On Thu, Jul 9, 2015 at 1:06 PM, Britton Smith <brittonsmith at gmail.com <mailto:brittonsmith at gmail.com>> wrote:
> >> This does not explicitly include the VR refactor, unless it happened to be
> >> approved in the very near future.  Assuming the remaining issues with the
> >> docs build were dealt with, it would be exactly what's in dev at this
> >> moment.
> >>
> >> On Thu, Jul 9, 2015 at 7:00 PM, Michael Zingale
> >> <michael.zingale at stonybrook.edu <mailto:michael.zingale at stonybrook.edu>> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> does this include the new VR interface?  I'm +1 if it is the old interface
> >>> for 3.2.
> >>>
> >>> On Thu, Jul 9, 2015 at 1:59 PM, Britton Smith <brittonsmith at gmail.com <mailto:brittonsmith at gmail.com>>
> >>> wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>> Hi everyone,
> >>>>
> >>>> Nathan and I just met briefly to discuss backporting all bugfix PRs from
> >>>> the development branch to stable so as to do a minor release.  This has
> >>>> become absolutely necessary as a large number of bugs have appeared and been
> >>>> fixed since the last release, which was nearly 6 months ago.  By my rough
> >>>> estimate, there have been about 200 PRs accepted since the last release,
> >>>> with a large fraction of them being bug fixes.  Therefore, it seemed to both
> >>>> Nathan and I that there were simply too many changesets that need to be
> >>>> picked out of dev and transplanted to stable for such an operation to be
> >>>> feasible.
> >>>>
> >>>> Instead, a far simpler solution is to bite the bullet and do a 3.2
> >>>> release with everything currently in dev.  Fortunately, as we require
> >>>> passing tests and documentation of new features, this would require
> >>>> relatively little effort.  Most of the work is cleaning up errors in the
> >>>> docs build, for which Nathan is filing tickets as I write this.
> >>>>
> >>>> I want to be clear that we desperately need a new release with the number
> >>>> of bugs that have been fixed since the last one.  If we do not do this, then
> >>>> someone else needs to step up and backport all those bugfixes to stable.
> >>>>
> >>>> For now, can I please get a +-1 on whether you agree with this proposal.
> >>>> If this meets with approval, then I will coordinate taking the next steps.
> >>>>
> >>>> Britton
> >>>>
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