Thank you for clarifying Lewis. I will add the ASF license headers to the conda recipes once I have some time to settle down tonight. Hope we can get this done soon!
Alex On Fri, Jul 22, 2016 at 7:26 AM, Lewis John Mcgibbney < lewis.mcgibb...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Alex, > Comment below > > On Fri, Jul 22, 2016 at 6:21 AM, <dev-digest-h...@climate.apache.org> > wrote: > > > From: "Goodman, Alexander (398K)" <alexander.good...@jpl.nasa.gov> > > To: "dev@climate.apache.org" <dev@climate.apache.org> > > Cc: > > Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2016 14:50:23 -0700 > > Subject: [DISCUSS] new conda package installer and future releases > > Hi folks, > > > > I have finished creating a wiki page regarding the recently released OCW > > conda package here [1]. This includes installation information as well > as a > > rough guide for maintaining the packages. Again, please test everything > if > > you have not read my previous email already. > > > > Nice! > > > > > > I would also like to raise some discussion regarding future releases. At > > this point, I think we are ready to release 1.1. The current codebase > seems > > to be sufficiently stable and some big changes (the conda package and > > upcoming datasource loader) should necessitate getting this release out > > ASAP. > > > > See several of my previous emails published to this list in recent weeks > and months regarding this. You are preaching to the choir. I've made > repeated attempts to define the roadmap for OCW. This can be seen at > > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CLIMATE/?selectedTab=com.atlassian.jira.jira-projects-plugin:roadmap-panel > Very few people seem to use this roadmap as our guide for moving towards > release which is sad. However I am still trying my best to guide this > community towards more request releases based off of it. If a few of us > align on using this Roadmap feature of Jira, then we can make much more > driven development drives. > > > > > > Additionally, I think we should begin to schedule more frequent release > > cycles now that we have an easy to use package management system in > place. > > > > Again you are preaching to the choir here. I hear you entirely and I agree. > In all honesty, the main hang up has been certain people who are paranoid > about us NOT releasing due to certain features not complete or buggy. This > goes against the popular open source methodology of 'release early release > often'. The OCW project and community suffers greatly for infrequent > releases. You sum this up below... it is something we need to address. > > > > Frankly, close to 1 year is too long of a release cycle given the > frequency > > of our commits. I think we should be making releases at least 2 or 3 > times > > per year if possible. > > > > Yes I agree. I am going to put a release candidate together once you commit > your code for the Conda package. > > Thanks > -- Alex Goodman Data Scientist I Science Data Modeling and Computing (398K) Jet Propulsion Laboratory California Institute of Technology Tel: +1-818-354-6012 Cell: +1-847-521-3640
