[yt-dev] proposing a yt-3.2 release

[Michael Zingale]

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>
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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