[SciPy-Dev] 0.16.0 release

[Ralf Gommers]

On Sat, May 9, 2015 at 5:11 PM, Eric Larson <larson.eric.d at gmail.com> wrote:

> I can do it Monday or Tuesday if that works.
>

That works, thanks Eric.

Ralf


> Eric
>  On May 9, 2015 8:01 AM, "Ralf Gommers" <ralf.gommers at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> On Sun, Apr 5, 2015 at 9:40 PM, Ralf Gommers <ralf.gommers at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> 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
>>>
>>
>> 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
>>
>>
>>
>>> - 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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