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Re: [Ufl] New releases
On 16. mai 2011, at 13:07, Anders Logg <logg@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> The suggested plan is as follows:
>
> 1. Release 0.9.11 now
> 2. Release 0.9.12 2011-05-31
> 3. Release 1.0.0-rc1 2011-06-14
>
> No new features should be added after this point and all known
> bugs (unless we decide to push them to post 1.0) should have
> been fixed.
>
> 4. Release rc2, rc3, ... if necessary
> 5. Release 1.0.0 when ready
>
> Between 3 and 4, all depending packages (like cbc.solve etc) have a
> chance to make updates to any interface changes and everyone is
> encouraged to test the release candidate.
>
Sounds good to me, though "when ready" is not a very definite term.
> How long should this window be? I'd like a very short window (like a
> week). Opinions?
A week is fine as long as one knows approximately when this week is going to be :-)
--
Marie
>
> Another thing to discuss is how to handle versioning of packages post
> 1.0. It's practical for users if DOLFIN, UFL, FFC, FIAT have the same
> version numbers. On the other hand, it's not practical for developers.
> In particular, FIAT usually makes less frequent updates than the other
> packages.
>
> Yet another thing to discuss is whether we want to require that all
> 1.x versions work together, so for example one can assume that FFC
> 1.0.3 works with DOLFIN 1.0.9. In general, I think we need to pay more
> attention to versioning and compatibility post 1.0.
>
> Johannes has also mentioned to me a requirement in Debian for binary
> compatibility with shared libraries. Johannes, could you say something
> about this?
>
> --
> Anders
>
>
> On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 12:24:49PM +0200, Martin Sandve Alnæs wrote:
>> Good idea. I just talked to Anders and Kent last week about the need
>> for a testing period with feature freeze before 1.0 is released. After
>> this release we should figure out how the release process up to 1.0
>> should be, also in relation with the book.
>>
>> Martin
>>
>> On 16 May 2011 12:13, Garth N. Wells <gnw20@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> I suggest now would be a good point to make new releases of UFL, FFC and
>>> DOLFIN. There have been a number of improvements to UFL, FFC caching,
>>> and there have been a good number of DOLFIN bugs fixes. New version
>>> numbers would be:
>>>
>>> UFL: 0.9.1
>>> FFC: 0.9.1
>>> DOLFIN: 0.9.12
>>>
>>> Jump in quick if there is anything that you would like do before a release.
>>>
>>> Garth
>>>
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