[yt-dev] Should support for octree data in the AMRKDTree be a blocker for 3.3?

[Nathan Goldbaum]

On Mon, May 2, 2016 at 7:18 PM, Kacper Kowalik <xarthisius.kk at gmail.com>
wrote:

> On 05/02/2016 06:26 PM, Nathan Goldbaum wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I'm moving some discussion from the comments in issue #1212 over to the
>> mailing list:
>>
>> https://bitbucket.org/yt_analysis/yt/issues/1212
>>
>> I wanted to check with the list since Cameron objected a bit in the issue
>> discussion.
>>
>> The issue Cameron identifies is pretty serious, but fully fixing it will
>> require pretty substantial work - adding support for octree data to the
>> AMRKDTree.
>>
>> I've gone ahead and marked it for version 3.4 - i.e. that it shouldn't be
>> a
>> blocker for the 3.3 release. I've also created issue 1215:
>>
>> https://bitbucket.org/yt_analysis/yt/issues/1215
>>
>> which will be fixed when yt produces a useful error message rather than
>> seg
>> faulting when trying to construct an AMRKDTree for unsupported data.
>>
>> I think that requiring someone to add support for octree data to the
>> AMRKDTree before we release 3.3 is effectively delaying the 3.3 release
>> arbitrarily far into the future, since no one is currently willing to work
>> on that project. That would be unfortunate, because there's lots of cool
>> stuff people have worked on that deserves a stable release.
>>
>> -Nathan
>>
>
> Hi,
> the rule of thumb I've always used within other open source project is
> that bugs that are not regressions shouldn't block release/stabilization of
> new versions.
>
> If we adopted such a rule, it would be a matter of answering the question
> whether #1212 applies to 3.2 as well, or was it introduced in 3.3?
>

I think it's been an issue since we began to support octree data in yt 3.0.


>
> Cheers,
> Kacper
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