[SciPy-Dev] SciPy 1.0 release schedule proposal

[Ralf Gommers]

Hi all,

We're now at 5 months after the 0.19.0 release, and well behind our planned
1.0 release date [1]. So it's high time for a more concrete plan - here it
is:

Sep 16: Branch 1.0.x
Sep 17: beta1
Sep 27: rc1
Oct 7: rc2
Oct 17: final release

This gives us one month to finish and merge everything that we really would
like to see in 1.0 - should be enough time for things that are already in
progress. The list of things now marked for 1.0 [2] is not too long, and
not all of it is critical. It would be useful if everyone could add
PRs/issues that they think are critical to the 1.0 milestone. Adding
yourself as an "assignee" on PRs/issues you plan to tackle would also be
helpful.

Besides some really nice new features, we made major strides in
infrastructure (CI, testing) and project organisation for this release. Fom
my perspective there are three critical things left:

1. Windows wheels. Looks like we're pretty much there, but we need to
ensure that 1.0 is the first release that has Windows wheels available.
2. Adding a code of conduct. This is the last thing we imho need from an
"open source project maturity" perspective (an FSA would be nice, but can
wait).
3. Merging a lot of PRs. There's ~150 PRs open now, I hope in the next
month we can focus on reducing that number and getting some nice
improvements in that have been waiting for quite some time.

Finally, we've discussed before writing a paper about SciPy to coincide
with this release. I'll follow up on that separately.

Thoughts?

Cheers,
Ralf

[1] https://mail.python.org/pipermail/scipy-dev/2016-September/021485.html
[2] https://github.com/scipy/scipy/milestones/1.0
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