[SciPy-Dev] Proposed SciPy 1.5.0 Release Schedule

[Ralf Gommers]

On Wed, May 6, 2020 at 4:49 AM Tyler Reddy <tyler.je.reddy at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> SciPy 1.4.0 was released December 16 (~ 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 1.5.0:
> - May 26/2020: branch 1.5.x
> - May 29/2020: rc1
> - June 11/2020: rc2 (if needed)
> - June 20/2020: final release
>

Sounds good to me.


> Complicating factors this time around may include attempts at providing
> ARM/ppc64le wheels and the continued migration from rackspace ->
> anaconda.org for asset hosting in both the main and wheels repos.
>

Looks like the anaconda.org migration is going well, thanks to Tyler and
everyone else who is pitching in. Having arm64/ppc64le wheels would be
great, we're pretty far along. Not a blocker though - they could be
uploaded later. Having CI for both platforms in place now is a good place
to start from.


> As always, it is a good idea to start tagging things that should be in
> 1.5.0 & please do help with reviewing PRs/issues that are tagged--current
> counts are:
>
> - 23 open issues with 1.5.0 milestone
> - 38 open PRs with 1.5.0 milestone
>

I bumped a few milestones and merged some PRs, it's down to 53 total.
There's a bunch of PRs that we really need to review, but not any really
problematic issues it looks like.


> 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-1.5.0
>
> Curating those final notes can be painful if the wiki isn't updated.
>
> Thoughts/objections for the schedule?
>

Thanks for leading the charge again Tyler.

Cheers,
Ralf



> Best wishes,
> Tyler
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