[yt-dev] proposing a yt-3.2 release

[Nathan Goldbaum]

On Thu, Jul 9, 2015 at 11:12 AM, John ZuHone <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> wrote:
> >
> > +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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> >>>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> --
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> >>>
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