[Numpy-discussion] A 1.6.2 release?

[Ralf Gommers]

On Mon, Apr 23, 2012 at 8:47 AM, Charles R Harris <charlesr.harris at gmail.com
> wrote:

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> On Mon, Apr 23, 2012 at 12:22 AM, Ralf Gommers <
> ralf.gommers at googlemail.com> wrote:
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>> On Sun, Apr 22, 2012 at 3:44 PM, Charles R Harris <
>> charlesr.harris at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>> On Sun, Apr 22, 2012 at 5:25 AM, Ralf Gommers <
>>> ralf.gommers at googlemail.com> wrote:
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>>>>>> Aiming for a RC on May 2nd and final release on May 16th would work
>>>>>> for me.
>>>>>>
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>>>>> I count 280 BUG commits since 1.6.1, so we are going to need to thin
>>>>> those out.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Indeed. We can discard all commits related to NA and datetime, and then
>>>> we should find some balance between how important the fixes are and how
>>>> much risk there is that they break something. I agree with the couple of
>>>> backports you've done so far, but I propose to do the rest via PRs.
>>>>
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>> Charles, did you have some practical way in mind to select these commits?
>> We could split it up by time range or by submodules for example. I'd prefer
>> the latter. You would be able to do a better job of the commits touching
>> numpy/core than I. How about you do that one and the polynomial module, and
>> I do the rest?
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> I'll give it a shot. I thought the first thing I would try is a search on
> tickets. We'll also need to track things and I haven't thought of a good
> way to do that apart from making a list and checking things off. I don't
> think there was too much polynomial fixing, mostly new stuff, but I'd like
> to use the current documentation. I don't know how you manage that for
> releases.
>

Nothing too fancy - I use the open tickets for the milestone at
http://projects.scipy.org/numpy/report/3, plus the checklist at
https://github.com/numpy/numpy/blob/master/doc/HOWTO_RELEASE.rst.txt and
perhaps a small todo list in my inbox. Normally we only do bugfix releases
for specific reasons, so besides those I just scan through the list of
commits and pick only some relevant ones of which I'm sure that they won't
give any problems.

The fixed items under
http://projects.scipy.org/numpy/query?status=closed&group=resolution&milestone=1.7.0
http://projects.scipy.org/numpy/query?status=closed&group=resolution&milestone=2.0.0
probably give the best overview.

Ralf
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