[Numpy-discussion] 1.7.1

[Charles R Harris]

On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 5:43 PM, Ondřej Čertík <ondrej.certik at gmail.com>wrote:

> On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 1:21 PM, Charles R Harris
> <charlesr.harris at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> > On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 2:03 PM, Ralf Gommers <ralf.gommers at gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >>
> >>
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> >> On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 7:47 PM, Charles R Harris
> >> <charlesr.harris at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> When should we put out 1.7.1? Discuss ;)
> >>
> >>
> >> When we have X times more fixes in maintenance/1.7.x than the one commit
> >> with a one-liner fix that we have now. Where X is >= 5 at least, unless
> >> there's a very high prio fix that needs releasing asap?
> >>
> >> Having at least 2 months between bugfix releases unless something very
> >> urgent comes up would also make sense to me.
> >>
> >> I think we do need to be diligent in backporting fixes quickly after
> >> they're merged into master, and not leaving that till right before the
> >> release candidate is scheduled.
> >>
> >
> > Ralph, the backports are PR's marked with the backport tag and there are
> > more than one. It is up to Ondrej to decide whether to include them or
> not.
>
> I can't see the backport tag. How can I find it at github?
>
> Otherwise I think we should release sooner, I think this bug is quite
> annoying
> for scikit-learn:
>
> https://github.com/scikit-learn/scikit-learn/issues/1715
>
>
I don't know the best way, but you can go to the search box, type
numpy/numpy issues, and when the results come up select the stable 1.7
backport milestone. Nathaniel committed a bunch, but it looks like there is
still one to backport.

Chuck
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