My feedback here isn't as important as users of SymPy who would be testers of a release candidate, but I would say that as long as we're willing to make bugfix releases like 1.6.1 for major regressions identified from the major release, it is less important to do release candidates.
I also would like to see evidence of people using release candidates. If you have tested a recent SymPy release candidate, even if you didn't find any issues with it, please let us know here. We can also take a look at the download stats for the release candidates. Aaron Meurer On Fri, Jun 26, 2020 at 6:14 PM Oscar Benjamin <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi all, > > I'm preparing the SymPy 1.6.1 bugfix release and I'm considering > skipping the release candidate and releasing directly and just wanted > to see if anyone has any opinions on that. In the past I haven't seen > much evidence that anyone has actually tested the pre-releases > (release candidate or beta) and it is a bunch of work producing them > so I'm asking here to see if anyone appreciates having them. > > You can see the fixes included for 1.6.1 here: > https://github.com/sympy/sympy/wiki/Release-Notes-for-1.6.1 > > The big change from 1.6 is the partial revert of some changes in > matrix operations. SymPy 1.6 introduced automatic simplification of > some calculations as part of matrix operations which gives a big speed > up in some simple cases but also a big slowdown in some other cases > for matrices with very complicated entries. There is a longer term > plan that can (hopefully) get the best of both worlds and speed up the > simple cases without affecting the others but that won't be ready for > some time. This change introduced in 1.6 is to be reverted for 1.6.1. > > There are also some other smaller bugfixes to be included in the 1.6.1 > release. > > Does anyone have any strong desire for a release candidate? Otherwise > I'll release 1.6.1 ASAP. > > Oscar > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "sympy" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sympy/CAHVvXxTgk2WUo6w3qEbty_F_3yEqs-MXMx%3DfjGM8AErwbJCHpw%40mail.gmail.com. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sympy" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sympy/CAKgW%3D6LkXPgcr9Ly8-pt8KBxZZVVR8OEkon7d85md8%2BfeRygCg%40mail.gmail.com.
