[SciPy-Dev] 0.16.0 release

[Eric Larson]

I can do it Monday or Tuesday if that works.

Eric
 On May 9, 2015 8:01 AM, "Ralf Gommers" <ralf.gommers at gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Sun, Apr 5, 2015 at 9:40 PM, Ralf Gommers <ralf.gommers at gmail.com>
> wrote:
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>>
>> The release manager is the person that has the final responsibility for
>> what does and does not go into a release, what are considered blocking
>> issues, etc. This part really has to be done by a core developer. However,
>> there's a lot of other things that the release manager also usually takes
>> care of which could equally well be done by one or more contributors who
>> are not core developers. Here's a list:
>> - build/test Windows and OS X binaries (.exe, .dmg, .whl)
>> - automate those binary builds/tests further
>> - tackle some of the issues that need to be resolved before the alpha /
>> beta / final release
>>
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> One thing that I could use a hand with is cleaning up the noise in the
> test suite. Basically, just run latest master and investigate the warnings
> and other printed output. In most cases what's needed is just silencing the
> warning. On Python 3.x there are also some ResourceWarnings that need
> fixing, probably by opening test files like ``with open('this_test_file',
> 'rb') as f:`` so they get closed automatically.
>
> The only output that doesn't need investigating (because it's not fixable)
> looks like:
>
>     0-th dimension must be fixed to 3 but got 15
>
> Any takers?
>
> Cheers,
> Ralf
>
>
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>> - PRs to complete the release notes and contributor name mapping
>> - a PR to the scipy.org repo to put the release in the News section
>> - improve documentation of the release process itself (the less you know
>> to start with, the better you can document it)
>>
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