Oh, I forgot one important note. I may push changes directly to the 0.7.2 branch. So if you can review those changes, to make sure everything looks good, that would help a lot too. And obviously help reviewing any PRs that are made against that branch will help as well.
Aaron Meurer On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 3:44 PM, Aaron Meurer <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi everyone. > > I know that many of you were not around the last time we did a > release, so I want to explain how the process works. I have created a > branch in the official repository, 0.7.2. This is the release branch. > This time, I've done things a little differently by creating a pull > request for 0.7.2 against master > (https://github.com/sympy/sympy/pull/1507). Please DO NOT merge this > pull request until the final release has been made. > > So here is how things will work: > > If you want to make change that should go in the next release, make a > pull request against the 0.7.2 branch (there will be a popup to change > the branch in the pull request form). It is important that you make > your changes against this branch and not master, which already > contains changes that should not go in the 0.7.2 release. > > If you have an existing pull request that should go in the next > release, this should be merged manually into this branch. If you do > have such a pull request, I ask that you do not rebase or merge this > branch against master, as any further commits to master should not go > in the release. So far, I know that > https://github.com/sympy/sympy/pull/1468, > https://github.com/sympy/sympy/pull/1500, > https://github.com/sympy/sympy/pull/1506 fall into this category. When > it comes time to merge these pull requests, we will manually merge > them into 0.7.2 and close the PR. If you want, you can close and > reopen it as a new PR against 0.7.2, but this is not necessary. > > For normal changes against master, things can continue unchanged. > Just make your pull requests against master as usual, and merge them > as usual. The master branch will continue as the development branch. > > Finally, I would ask that everyone help with the release. One easy > way to help is to run sympy-bot against pull request 1507 with all > your python configurations. I will write to the list when we have an > actual release candidate tarball that you can download and test (so > far it's waiting on those three PRs I noted above). > > Of course, if you can help with changes against the release, or with > any of the steps outlined in > https://github.com/sympy/sympy/wiki/new-release, that would be great. > If you have any questions, just let me know. > > Aaron Meurer -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sympy" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sympy?hl=en.
