[SciPy-Dev] Proposed 1.6.0 Release Schedule

Tue Dec 22 17:43:50 EST 2020

With the second release candidate out today, I'd estimate a final release
for 1.6.0 around December 31/2020, or shortly thereafter.

Best wishes,
Tyler

On Wed, 2 Dec 2020 at 05:37, Romain Jacob <jacobr at ethz.ch> wrote:

> Hi everyone,
>
> There are two stats PRs left, but I believe the "bandwidth" is a bit
> better with core devs reviewing those, and they could always be bumped I
> think.
>
> Could this stat PR (https://github.com/scipy/scipy/pull/12680) be
> considered for the 1.6.0 milestone?
>
> I made the suggested changes and there has not been any further comments
> in a while; so, just wandering :-) If not, it would be cool to know what
> else I am expected to provide to conclude PR.
>
> Cheers,
> --
> Romain
>
>
> There are two "dueling" optimize PRs:
> https://github.com/scipy/scipy/pull/13143
> https://github.com/scipy/scipy/pull/12889
>
> So, maybe we are within a single digit number of days from branching 1.6.0
> now?
>
> Many thanks to several core devs (of NumPy and SciPy projects) for
> assisting with efforts to migrate off Travis CI due to the recent
> restrictions imposed there.
>
> Best wishes,
> Tyler
>
> On Sun, 22 Nov 2020 at 13:24, Ilhan Polat <ilhanpolat at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I don't mean to disrupt your flow but please feel free to assign some
>> dummy work to us if need be. Given the pandemic and all, it's much easier
>> to get overwhelmed with stuff these days.
>>
>> On Sun, Nov 22, 2020 at 8:14 PM Tyler Reddy <tyler.je.reddy at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> We may need to delay the release a bit. Mostly because of the disruption
>>> to the Travis CI service (not running/credit limit), which would probably
>>> affect the wheels repo before a final release too. I've tried to move a few
>>> of the simpler jobs to Azure, but probably running out of steam for that
>>> effort this weekend.
>>>
>>> I've reached out to Travis CI support and asked NumFOCUS informally what
>>> we might do here. A few kind folks have offered to chip in to keep the CI
>>> running short-term. Let's see what happens with the former inquiries first?
>>>
>>> Open PR count is currently 26 for the 1.6.0 milestone, though probably a
>>> few more I can bump to next milestone.
>>>
>>> Best wishes,
>>> Tyler
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Mon, 9 Nov 2020 at 00:12, Evgeni Burovski <evgeny.burovskiy at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> How about shifting the release towards January then?
>>>>
>>>> пн, 9 нояб. 2020 г., 1:43 Tyler Reddy <tyler.je.reddy at gmail.com>:
>>>>
>>>>> Ok, I'll bump it by a week then.
>>>>>
>>>>>    - November 24: branch maintenance/1.6.x
>>>>>    - November 27: rc1
>>>>>    - December 8: rc2 (if needed)
>>>>>    - December 17: final release
>>>>>
>>>>> I was trying to avoid the overlap with US Thanksgiving and a final
>>>>> release in late December near Winter Break, but I'll manage.
>>>>> Tyler
>>>>>
>>>>> On Sun, 8 Nov 2020 at 14:53, Ralf Gommers <ralf.gommers at gmail.com>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Sat, Nov 7, 2020 at 10:48 PM Tyler Reddy <tyler.je.reddy at gmail.com>
>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> SciPy 1.5.0 was released June 21 (~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 1.6.0:
>>>>>>> - November 17: branch 1.6.x
>>>>>>> - November 20: rc1
>>>>>>> - December 1: rc2 (if needed)
>>>>>>> - December 10: final release
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> As always, it is a good idea to start tagging things that should be
>>>>>>> in 1.6.0 & please do help with reviewing PRs/issues that are
>>>>>>> tagged--current counts are:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> - PRs: 45 open with 1.6.0 milestone
>>>>>>> - issues: 25 open with 1.6.0 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-1.6.0
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Thoughts/objections for the schedule?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> It does seem like there's a lot of PRs open, having only one weekend
>>>>>> left seems optimistic. The majority can be bumped to 1.7.0, but there's a
>>>>>> bit of a backlog of nice PRs that have been ready for a while and would be
>>>>>> nice to get in. For example:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> - KDTree/cKDTree feature parity:
>>>>>> https://github.com/scipy/scipy/pull/12852
>>>>>> - HiGHS solver as linprog method:
>>>>>> https://github.com/scipy/scipy/pull/12043
>>>>>> - Balanced cut tree: https://github.com/scipy/scipy/pull/10730
>>>>>> - Andrew's set of optimize PRs that he brought up on the mailing list
>>>>>> recently
>>>>>> - Greg's set of ndimage PRs, complex kernels and the boundary
>>>>>> handling ones (#12725, #12767, #12776)
>>>>>>
>>>>>> If it's possible, given your time constraints, to bump the schedule
>>>>>> by one week then that may be useful.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Cheers,
>>>>>> Ralf
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
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