Lisandro,
Please send me what to add in dev.html regarding your new APIs for 2nd
order systems in TS or add it yourself directly in the maint branch.
Thanks
Barry
> On Apr 24, 2016, at 3:08 PM, Lisandro Dalcin <[email protected]> wrote:
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> On 24 April 2016 at 22:48, Barry Smith <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> On the other hand, a feature freeze for a week is a perfect opportunity for
>>> improving documentation and other work that will not break the code. And
>>> even if one prefers to keep coding, new features can still be put in next
>>> for testing. Particularly if communicated in advance ("Hey, we will have a
>>> feature freeze in 7 days and plan to release in 10 days"), people can
>>> easily arrange things. I think Lisandro's feature would have been ready on
>>> time if he had known 7 days in advance.
>>
>> Nonsense, he knew weeks ahead.
>
> Dear Barry, your comments are a bit unfair. I've been working hard the
> last two months to get my features in. However, in the process of
> developing them, I found many issues in the TS interface as well as
> implementation that needed proper fixing before adding my stuff. I
> could be an irresponsible guy, and just put my crap in, add hacks here
> and there as needed to get my stuff work as I want, and do not care at
> all about all the cleanup and refactoring that was required. It was
> not easy, I had to touch many pieces that interact each other, in the
> process I broke the builds more than once as you likely remember. And
> still there are things that should be fixed or done better.
>
> At this point, if PETSc 3.7.0 has to be released because of political
> issues, and we will accept adding new forward-compatible APIs in
> 3.7.1, then that's fine with me. It is not my intention to delay the
> release or put you in the pressure of accepting my new features if
> that does not convince you. If you guys decide that adding APIs in
> 3.7.1 is not acceptable, then I'll be a little bit disappointed, but
> is not the end of the world, I should be able to live with that :-)
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