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["Garth N. Wells" <gnw20@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 6 March 2013 12:53, Johannes Ring <johannr@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 5, 2013 at 10:17 PM, Anders Logg <logg@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> On Tue, Mar 05, 2013 at 05:10:59PM +0100, Johannes Ring wrote:
>>> Hi all,
>>> It was suggested earlier today that we make a new release. No one has
>>> objected and I have been appointed as the release manager, so we are
>>> then at step four in the development model [1].
>>> Tomorrow, March 6, I will fork the development branches into 1.2.x
>>> branches [2] to prepare for the release of FEniCS 1.2. The buildbot
>>> will then be updated to build the 1.2.x branches, and when it is
>>> green, we can go ahead and make the release. Alternatively, we can
>>> wait one week as suggested by the development model. Development can
>>> of course continue in the development branches, but only bug fixes
>>> will be merged into the 1.2.x branches to be included in the 1.2
>>> release.
>>> [1] http://fenicsproject.org/contributing/development_model.html
>>> [2] DOLFIN, FFC, Instant, UFC (2.2.x) and UFL are needed
>>
>> Sounds great. I don't think we should need to wait a week. As soon as
>> the buildbot is green we can make a release. Then 1.2.1 can follow if
>> we find (more) bugs.
>
> ok, I have made the branches for the 1.2.x series and set the expected
> release date to Friday March 8.
>

Can I squeeze in our HDF5 updates? I'm just double-checking the tests now.

Garth

> Johannes
>
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