[Numpy-discussion] Scheduling the 1.7.1 and 1.8 releases

Ralf Gommers ralf.gommers at gmail.com
Wed Mar 6 15:52:23 EST 2013


On Wed, Mar 6, 2013 at 9:06 PM, Nathaniel Smith <njs at pobox.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Mar 6, 2013 at 6:43 PM, Charles R Harris
> <charlesr.harris at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi All,
> >
> > There are now some 14 non-merge commits in the 1.7.x branch including the
> > critical diagonal leak fix. I think there is maybe one more critical
> > backport and perhaps several low priority fixes, documentation and such,
> but
> > I think we should start up the release process with a goal of getting
> 1.7.1
> > out by the middle of April.
>
> What's the critical backport you're thinking of? This last shows just
> two backport PRs waiting to be merged, one trivial one that I just
> submitted, the other that needs a tweak but won't take long:
>   https://github.com/numpy/numpy/issues?milestone=27&page=1&state=open
> But I agree, basically we should merge those two (today?) and then
> release the first RC as soon as Ondrej has a moment to do so...
>

I added issue 2999, which I think should be taken along. Other than that,
+1 for a quick release.



> > 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.
>
> I would say "let's fix the blockers and then branch as soon as Ondrej
> has time to do it", but in practice I suspect this comes out the same
> as what you just said :-). I just pruned the list of blockers; here's
> what we've got:
>   https://github.com/numpy/numpy/issues?milestone=1&page=1&state=open
>

It looks like we're not doing so well with setting Milestones correctly.
Only 4 closed issues for 1.8....

Release quickly after 1.7.1 sounds good.

Ralf
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