Release Details

2017-07-10T16:26:20Z

Noncct depietri:

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Note that we created a new wiki page [[Release_coordination | Release coordination]] to discuss details.

<h2>Schedule for ET_2017_07</h2>
(This is out of date. As of 2017-07-10, we are planning to release as soon as the McLachlan ADMConstraints patch has been corrected, and the tests have been rerun by Roland on the final version.)
<ul>
<li>2017-06-16:
Slight freeze: no new major additions to the toolkit (new thorns or tools, major patches)</li>
<li>2017-06-19:
Feature freeze: no new features allowed anymore, extensive testing begins</li>
<li>2017-06-23:
Release branches are created, development version un-frozen again</li>
<li>2017-06-26:
Total freeze of release branches, preparation of tar-balls etc. begins</li>
<li>2017-06-29:
Target release date (or earlier if "ready")</li>
</ul>

<h2>Tasks</h2>
* <span style="color:green">done: </span>[https://trac.einsteintoolkit.org/ticket/1817 New thorn: LORENE2, by default disabled in thornlist (not even build)]
* <span style="color:green">done: </span>[https://trac.einsteintoolkit.org/ticket/2039 Meudon_Bin_NS]
* <span style="color:green">done: </span>[https://trac.einsteintoolkit.org/ticket/1821 Carpet and this==NULL]
* <span style="color:red">Regexp needs fixing (Peter and Steve), and then testing (Roland): </span>[https://trac.einsteintoolkit.org/ticket/1995 McLachlan Testsuites fail]
* <span style="color:green">done: </span>[https://trac.einsteintoolkit.org/ticket/2040 EOS_Omni and piecewise polytropes]
* <span style="color:gray">not for this release </span>KNL performance
Not going to make it before the release, should be done directly after:
* [https://trac.einsteintoolkit.org/ticket/1974 New Diagnostics Thorns]
* [https://trac.einsteintoolkit.org/ticket/2043 RNS]
* [https://trac.einsteintoolkit.org/ticket/2042 Hydro Analysis Thorns]

<h2>Tools/Links</h2>
<ul>
<li>The release branch name will be ET_2017_07</li>
<li>The release name is [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margherita_Hack Hack].</li>
<li>The list of proposed names for last release was
<ul>
<li>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chien-Shiung_Wu Chien-Shiung Wu]
<li>Lorentz
<li>Tesla
<li>Wheeler
<li>DeWitt
<li>Feynman
<li>Turing
<li>Planck
<li>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margherita_Hack Hack]
</ul>
</li>
<li>
[http://einsteintoolkit.org/testsuite_results/index.php Testsuite status page]
</li>
<li>Instructions for running the tests using SimFactory: [http://docs.einsteintoolkit.org/et-docs/Testsuite_Machines Testsuite Machines]</li>
<li>Release announcements: [[Detailed Release Announcement|wiki sandbox]]</li>
<li>Release announced to: users@einsteintoolkit.org, {news|users}@cactuscode.org, Jennifer Claudet <jennifer@cct.lsu.edu> for AllCCT, http://hyperspace.uni-frankfurt.de/, http://astro-sim.org/</li>
<li>Testing is performed on the latest version of common operating systems, for example Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora, Scientific Linux, Mac OS etc. People often want to build the ET on their laptop or workstation. Instructions for which packages etc are needed can be found in the respective Simfactory option list. This information could also be provided on the Cactus website.</li>
</ul>

<h2>Release Plan</h2>

Test status is on [[Release coordination]] page.

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<tr><th colspan="2">Task</th><th>Responsible</th><th>Status</th></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2">Regenerate all Kranc thorns (McLachlan, EinsteinExact and WeylScal4)</td><td> Ian </td><td><span style="color:red">To do </span></td><td></td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2">Regenerate all documentation web pages</td><td> </td><td><span style="color:red">To do </span></td><td></td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2">Test all examples in the gallery (http://einsteintoolkit.org/gallery/) with the current thornlist, and update the thornlist mentioned on the page</td><td> Llama: Ian, BBH: Ian </td><td><span style="color:red">To do </span></td><td></td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2">Update Tutorials</td><td> Simplified: Roland </td><td><span style="color:red">To do </span></td><td></td></tr>
<tr><td rowspan="26">(Re)run Testsuites</td>
<td>bluewaters</td><td>Roland</td><td></td></tr>
<tr><td>carver </td><td> </td><td></td></tr>
<tr><td>comet </td><td>Roland</td><td></td></tr>
<tr><td>galileo </td><td>Roberto</td><td>CINECA Tier1 Machine</td></tr>
<tr><td>golub </td><td>Roland</td><td></td></tr>
<tr><td>hydra </td><td>Roland</td><td>MPG cluster in Garching</td></tr>
<tr><td>marconi A1 </td><td>Roberto</td><td>CINECA Tier0 Machine</td></tr>
<tr><td>marconi A2 </td><td>Roberto</td><td>CINECA Tier0 Machine (KNL)</td></tr>
<tr><td>minerva </td><td>Roland</td><td></td></tr>
<tr><td>edison </td><td>Roland</td><td></td></tr>
<tr><td>queenbee </td><td>Roland</td><td></td></tr>
<tr><td>shelob </td><td> </td><td></td></tr>
<tr><td>stampede </td><td>Roland</td><td>about to be decommissioned</td></tr>
<tr><td>supermike </td><td>Frank </td><td>needs work on option list</td></tr>
<tr><td>supermuc </td><td> </td><td>?</td></tr>
<tr><td>zwicky </td><td>Roland</td></tr>
<tr><td>wheeler </td><td>Roland</td><td>succeds zwicky</td></tr>
<tr><td>(private) amarok </td><td>Peter </td><td></td></tr>
<tr><td>(private) bethe </td><td>Roland</td><td></td></tr>
<tr><td>(private) cygnus </td><td>Matt </td><td></td></tr>
<tr><td>(private) newhorizons</td><td>Yosef</td><td></td></tr>
<tr><td>(private) redshift </td><td>Erik </td><td>good</td></tr>
<tr><td>(private) spine (Debian Jessie) </td><td>Frank </td><td>ok</td></tr>
<tr><td>(private) titan </td><td>Erik </td><td>good</td></tr>
<tr><td>(private) Ubuntu LTS </td><td>Roland</td><td></td></tr>
<tr><td>(private) Ubuntu Current</td><td>Roland</td><td></td></tr>
<tr><td>(private) Debian Testing</td><td>Roland</td><td></td></tr>
<tr><td>(private) Fedora Current</td><td>Roland</td><td></td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2">Check & Improve Documentation (www, wiki)</td><td>everyone</td><td><span style="color:red">To do </span></td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2">Write announcement texts ([[Detailed Release Announcement]])</td><td>Frank</td><td><span style="color:red">To do </span></td></tr>

<tr><td rowspan="8">Create release branch</td><td>bitbucket </td> <td>Frank</td><td><span style="color:red">To do </span></td></tr>
<tr> <td>svn.cactuscode.org </td> <td>Frank</td><td><span style="color:red">To do </span></td></tr>
<tr> <td>svn.cct.lsu.edu </td> <td>Frank</td><td><span style="color:red">To do </span></td></tr>
<tr> <td>github.com/ianhinder/Kranc.git</td><td>Frank</td><td><span style="color:red">To do </span></td></tr>
<tr> <td>github.com:gridaphobe/CRL.git</td> <td>Frank</td><td><span style="color:red">To do </span></td></tr>
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