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[Johannes Ring <johannr@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Mar 6, 2013 at 1:58 PM, Garth N. Wells <gnw20@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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.

ok!

Johannes