[yt-dev] proposing a yt-3.2 release
Matthew Turk
matthewturk at gmail.com
Thu Jul 9 11:08:17 PDT 2015
+1
On Thu, Jul 9, 2015 at 1:06 PM, Britton Smith <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> 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>
>> 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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>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Michael Zingale
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>>
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