[Numpy-discussion] Created NumPy 1.7.x branch

[Ondřej Čertík]

On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 3:11 AM, Travis Oliphant <travis at continuum.io> wrote:
> Hey all,
>
> I made a branch called with_maskna and then merged Nathaniel's PR which removes the mask_na support from master.  I then applied a patch to fix the boolean indexing problem reported by Ralf.
>
> I then created a NumPy 1.7.x maintenance branch from which the release of NumPy 1.7 will be made.   Ondrej Certik and I will be managing the release of NumPy 1.7.   Ondrej is the author of SymPy and has agreed to help get NumPy 1.7 out the door.   Thanks, Ondrej for being willing to help in this way.
>
> In principal only bug-fixes should be pushed to the NumPy 1.7 branch at this point.   The target is to make a release of NumPy 1.7.x by July 9th.   The schedule we will work for is:
>
> RC1 -- June 25
> RC2 -- July  5
> Release -- July 13

I worked on the release notes:

https://github.com/numpy/numpy/pull/318

Please let me know if you think that I forgot some important feature
or if you have any suggestions for improvement. If it looks pretty
good, then I will start testing NumPy against packages
(https://github.com/numpy/numpy/issues/319).

Ondrej