[yt-dev] proposing a yt-3.2 release

[Cameron Hummels]

I am also +1 on the proposed plan.

On Thu, Jul 9, 2015 at 11:08 AM, 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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> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> --
> >> Michael Zingale
> >> Associate Professor
> >>
> >> Dept. of Physics & Astronomy • Stony Brook University • Stony Brook, NY
> >> 11794-3800
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> >>
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Cameron Hummels
Postdoctoral Researcher
Steward Observatory
University of Arizona
http://chummels.org
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