[Numpy-discussion] Scheduling the 1.7.1 and 1.8 releases

[Charles R Harris]

On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 4:32 AM, Sebastian Berg
<sebastian at sipsolutions.net>wrote:

> On Wed, 2013-03-06 at 11:43 -0700, Charles R Harris wrote:
> > Hi All,
> >
> <snip>
>
> > The development branch has been accumulating stuff since last summer,
> > I suggest we look to get it out in May, branching at the end of this
> > month.
>
> Hey,
>
> maybe it is a bit early, but I was wondering. What are the things that
> should be done before branching? Most of the blockers should be
> resolved? I think the largest of that are maybe the deprecations (but
> since 1.7.0 is not too long ago many of them maybe don't need touching).
> Aside from that, I think these are lurking/in-progress:
>
> Fix the piled up mapping.c things:
>     * This means resolving https://github.com/numpy/numpy/pull/436 .
>       It will be even worse now, but maybe at least most of it can
>       be put in without too much work?
>     * After that, non-integer deprecations should be done fully before
>       1.8. I think, but these need to change mapping.c too (the
>       most work is probably the tests...):
>         - https://github.com/numpy/numpy/pull/2891
>         - https://github.com/numpy/numpy/pull/2825
>     * (https://github.com/numpy/numpy/pull/2701)
>
> Are the 2to3 fixers supposed to be finished for 1.8? If yes there is
> probably no point in thinking about branching, etc. since back porting
> them all is just pain.
>
>
There is no milestone for the 2to3 stuff, although I expect it will be done
by the end of April.

Chuck
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