[SciPy-Dev] Proposed SciPy 1.4.0 Release Schedule

[Ralf Gommers]

On Wed, Nov 13, 2019 at 7:35 PM Tyler Reddy <tyler.je.reddy at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Alright, shall we aim for a two-day bump on the branching to Nov. 16th
> (Saturday)? I see we're at ~8 PRs with the milestone now, but I also still
> have to work on release notes, etc.
>

Thanks, that sounds good!



> I'm also expecting one or two surprises to pop up in the wheels repo given
> major release + 3.8.
>
> On Wed, 13 Nov 2019 at 20:21, Ralf Gommers <ralf.gommers at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi Tyler, are you still planning to branch 1.4.x tomorrow? It looks like
>> there's no real blockers, but there's a bunch of stuff that people seem to
>> be scrambling to get in, so perhaps a 24-48 hour bump could be useful.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Ralf
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Nov 12, 2019 at 8:31 AM Tyler Reddy <tyler.je.reddy at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Down to 12 open PRs with 1.4.0 milestone--getting closer!
>>>
>>> On Sat, 9 Nov 2019 at 21:40, Tyler Reddy <tyler.je.reddy at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> We currently sit at 31 open PRs and 20 open issues with 1.4.0 milestone.
>>>>
>>>> That's a substantial drop in PRs but a rise in issues since the last
>>>> accounting. Things got
>>>> a little hectic with Python 3.8 for 1.3.2, but hopefully the wheels
>>>> stuff is in good shape
>>>> for 1.4.x series now.
>>>>
>>>> Branching in about 5 days is ambitious, but let's aim to stay
>>>> reasonably on track if possible.
>>>>
>>>> On Mon, 21 Oct 2019 at 13:39, Matt Haberland <haberland at ucla.edu>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Re: 1.2.3 release, I did get a request in gh-10915
>>>>> <https://github.com/scipy/scipy/issues/10915> for gh-10498
>>>>> <https://github.com/scipy/scipy/pull/10498> to be backported to 1.2.
>>>>>
>>>>> On Mon, Oct 21, 2019 at 8:47 AM Ralf Gommers <ralf.gommers at gmail.com>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Sat, Oct 19, 2019 at 12:24 AM Tyler Reddy <
>>>>>> tyler.je.reddy at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> SciPy 1.3.0 was released May 17 (5 months ago), and I think we'd
>>>>>>> like to keep a roughly biannual release cadence.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I'd like to propose the following schedule for 1.4.0:
>>>>>>> - November 14: branch 1.4.x
>>>>>>> - November 17: rc1
>>>>>>> - December 1: rc2 (if needed)
>>>>>>> - December 10: final release
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Sounds good to me.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> The arrival of Python 3.8 and simultaneous responsibility to get at
>>>>>>> least one more 1.2.x LTS Python 2.7 release out the door means things will
>>>>>>> probably be busy on the release front until 2020.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> True. I think supporting 3.8 is fairly high-prio, there's a lot of
>>>>>> demand for it. Doing a 1.3.2 release that supports it would make sense I
>>>>>> guess.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> There don't seem to be any new commits on the 1.2.x branch nor urgent
>>>>>> Python 2.7 fixes that need to go out. So do we need a 1.2.3 release?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Cheers,
>>>>>> Ralf
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> As always, it is a good idea to start tagging things that should be
>>>>>>> in 1.4.0 & please do help with reviewing PRs/issues that are
>>>>>>> tagged--current counts are:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> - PRs: 40 open with 1.4.0 milestone
>>>>>>> - issues: 17 open with 1.4.0 milestone
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> While helping with that, also great if the release notes wiki is
>>>>>>> updated for appropriate changes:
>>>>>>> https://github.com/scipy/scipy/wiki/Release-note-entries-for-SciPy-1.4.0
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Curating those final notes can be painful if the wiki isn't updated.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Thoughts/objections for the schedule?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Best wishes,
>>>>>>> Tyler
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