[SciPy-Dev] Proposed SciPy 1.4.0 Release Schedule

[Matt Haberland]

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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Matt Haberland
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