[Numpy-discussion] Updated 1.15.0 release notes

[Nathan Goldbaum]

OK I guess I missed that announcement.

I wouldn’t mind more than one email with a reminder to test.

On Wed, Jun 13, 2018 at 7:42 PM Charles R Harris <charlesr.harris at gmail.com>
wrote:

> On Wed, Jun 13, 2018 at 6:28 PM, Nathan Goldbaum <nathan12343 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi Chuck,
>>
>> Are you planning on doing an rc release this time? I think the NumPy 1.14
>> release was unusually bumpy and part of that was the lack of an rc. One
>> example: importing h5py caused a warning under numpy 1.14 and an h5py
>> release didn’t come out with a workaround or fix for a couple months. There
>> was also an issue with array printing that caused problems in yt (although
>> both yt and NumPy quickly did bugfix releases that fixed that).
>>
>> I guess 1.14 was particularly noisy, but still I’d really appreciate
>> having a prerelease version to test against and some time to report issues
>> with the prerelease so numpy and other projects can implement workarounds
>> as needed without doing a release that might potentially break real users
>> who happen to install right after numpy 1.x.0 comes out.
>>
>
> There was a 1.14.0rc1
> <https://github.com/numpy/numpy/releases/tag/v1.14.0rc1>. I was too quick
> for the full release, just waited three weeks, so maybe four this time. Too
> few people actually test the candidates and give feedback, so I tend to
> regard the *.*.0 releases as the true rc :)
>
> Chuck
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