[Numpy-discussion] A 1.6.2 release?

[Charles R Harris]

On Sat, Apr 21, 2012 at 10:24 AM, Charles R Harris <
charlesr.harris at gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Sat, Apr 21, 2012 at 9:16 AM, Charles R Harris <
> charlesr.harris at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> On Sat, Apr 21, 2012 at 2:46 AM, Ralf Gommers <
>> ralf.gommers at googlemail.com> wrote:
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>>> On Fri, Apr 20, 2012 at 8:04 PM, Charles R Harris <
>>> charlesr.harris at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>>> Hi All,
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>>>> Given the amount of new stuff coming in 1.7 and the slip in it's
>>>> schedule, I wonder if it would be worth putting out a 1.6.2 release with
>>>> fixes for einsum, ticket 1578, perhaps some others. My reasoning is that
>>>> the fall releases of Fedora, Ubuntu are likely to still use 1.6 and they
>>>> might as well use a somewhat fixed up version. The downside is located and
>>>> backporting fixes is likely to be a fair amount of work. A 1.7 release
>>>> would be preferable, but I'm not sure when we can make that happen.
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>>> Travis still sounded hopeful of being able to resolve the 1.7 issues
>>> relatively soon. On the other hand, even if that's done in one month we'll
>>> still miss Debian stable and a 1.6.2 release won't be *that* much work.
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>>> Let's go for it I would say.
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>>> Aiming for a RC on May 2nd and final release on May 16th would work for
>>> me.
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>> I count 280 BUG commits since 1.6.1, so we are going to need to thin
>> those out.
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> Backported einsum fixes.
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Backported ticket #1578 fixes.

Chuck
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