On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 1:07 PM, Anders Logg <[email protected]> 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. > > How long should this window be? I'd like a very short window (like a > week). Opinions? > > 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?
Sorry for the late reply. I will get back to this soon. Johannes > -- > 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 <[email protected]> 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 >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~dolfin >> > Post to : [email protected] >> > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~dolfin >> > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp >> > >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ufl >> Post to : [email protected] >> Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ufl >> More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~dolfin > Post to : [email protected] > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~dolfin > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~dolfin Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~dolfin More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
