Thanks, Michael. Have a very good time at ISAAC!
John 2008/7/19 mabshoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > On Jul 19, 8:16 am, Jason Grout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> mabshoff wrote: >> > Hello folks, >> >> > due to the ssmod and the gfe2 bug in Sage we really want to have a >> > stable release out by Wednesday when William gives his talk at ISSAC. >> > Since we don't want to cut it too short that means that I just moved >> > all but the above two tickets to 3.1.1. Any new ticket should be a >> > real blocker, i.e. segfault fix, horrendous memory leak or some major >> > generic embarrassment. >> >> > So the plan in detail: >> >> > 3.0.6: Sunday/Monday with binaries done by Tuesday >> >> > 3.1: Should open right after 3.0.6 and the first patch in should be >> > Robert's new parent.pyx. To quote Robert from >> >http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel/msg/6162d308061333ef >> >> > [quote] >> > In terms of status, I got the new parent under the old parent (and >> > all doctests passing) and swapped out the coercion models (in the >> > process of writing a compatibility layer for old parents). When this >> > goes in, we can start writing against the new model. QQ, RR, CC, >> > etc. >> > will probably be the best examples. >> > [end quote] >> >> > Then we might or might not merge some other tickets depending on >> > Robert's wishes/stability. >> >> > 3.1.1: Merge as usual >> >> > Thoughts? >> >> What do you see as the timeline for releasing 3.1.1 (which I assume is >> the next "normal" release for merging new things in). Before 8 Aug, >> hopefully? > > I am pretty clueless. Depending on how deep the parent.pyx merge is > and if Robert insists/recommends a coercion patch only release we will > take it from here. > >> Thanks, >> >> Jason > > Having thought about it on the train trip to Linz I now believe that > 3.1 should be more or less a regular release, but I will likely do an > alpha0 with just parent.pyx patched to valgrind it and catch any > potential regressions that way. But I will wait on Robert to speak up > on this point since it is all his baby and I am sure we can all agree > that his call will be the right one, so I am bowing to the master of > coercion (and his merry band of minions :)) > > Cheers, > > Michael > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
