Is that really the only thing keeping up a 0.4 RC, or are bugs that are being reported just not being tagged for a 0.4.0 release?
If I look at the issue tracker, there are 86 open bugs. Not a single one of these is tagged for 0.4.0, and 74 of those are not assigned to any milestone. Have these 74 been triaged and it is clear that none of them should be fixed before a release? Of those 74 unscheduled bugs, 1 has the priority label, is that a signal that it actually should be fixed before a release? Three have the regression label, shouldn’t regressions be fixed before a release? If I look at all issues opened in the last two weeks, not a single one is assigned to any milestone. Does that mean that someone looked over them and decided what their status if for a 0.4.0 release, or does that mean that no one has determined whether they should be release blockers or not? In my sample of n=1, I reported bug #12896, which is something that worked on julia 0.3.x, but doesn’t on julia 0.4. Shouldn’t bugs like that be fixed before a release? I guess I’m just not clear what the release criteria actually is… And it is not clear to me who is making those calls about incoming bug reports, and whether anyone is actually making them. One suggestion on this: create a new milestone called “Backlog”, then designate someone from the core team who looks at each incoming bug issue, and assigns it either to a release or the backlog milestone. That way at least one would know which bug reports have been triaged in which haven’t: anything bug report that is not assigned to a milestone has not been triaged (and therefore should actually hold up a RC, at least until someone has determined that this is not for the current release). Cheers, David From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Jake Bolewski Sent: Thursday, September 3, 2015 11:21 AM To: julia-users <[email protected]> Subject: [julia-users] 0.4 final push! v0.4 is being held up by one blocking issue https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/pull/12835. We need eyeballs helping us to spot problems with manual prior to branching 0.4 and making a release candidate. Fortunately helping out is easy: See Yichao's comment for help contributing <https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/pull/12835#issuecomment-137439478> Thanks, Jake
