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

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