Release Details

Schedule for ET_2013_05

• 2013-04-08: Slight freeze: no new major additions to the toolkit (new thorns or tools, major patches)
• 2013-05-01: Feature freeze: no new features allowed anymore, extensive testing begins
• 2013-05-10: Release branches are created, development version un-frozen again
• 2013-05-21: Total freeze of release branches, preparation of tar-balls ect. begins
• 2013-05-23: Target release data (or earlier if "ready")

Tools/Links

• The release branch name will be ET_2013_05
• The current list of proposed names is
  • Lorentz
  • Tesla
  • Gauss
  • Wheeler
  • DeWitt
  • Feynman
  • Hilbert
  • Turing
  • Brahe
  • Planck
• Testsuite Status page (add the testsuite *.log files created by scripts below to the repository at [1] to have them automatically included)
• Simfactory is able to run testsuites now. Please use it to run testsuites, also to test this capability.
• Information on running the tests on different machines (some duplication with release-info page): Testsuite Machines (ICH: this page is hopelessly out of date, refers to simfactory v1, and doesn't say anything about using simfactory to run the tests. Please don't use it!)
• Release announcements: short and long
• Release announced to: users@einsteintoolkit.org, {news|users}@cactuscode.org, Jennifer Claudet <jennifer@cct.lsu.edu> for AllCCT, http://hyperspace.aei.mpg.de/, http://astro-sim.org/
• TODO update: List of commits since the last release: Einstein Toolkit ChangeLog
• ChangeLog text
• I would like to suggest that testing is performed on the latest version of common operating systems, for example Ubuntu, Fedora, Scientific Linux, Mac OS etc. People often want to build the ET on their laptop or workstation. We should provide somewhere instructions for which packages etc are needed. This information is probably already available in the minds of the current developers who use these systems already, and this should be written up more formally somewhere. This information could also be provided on the Cactus website. We could have simfactory configurations to go with this. (Ian)

Release Plan

Task		Due date	Responsible	Status
(Re)run Testsuites	datura	as necessary	Ian	?
	bluewaters	as necessary	Erik	?
	forge	as necessary		?
	hopper	as necessary	Erik	?
	kraken	as necessary	Roland	updated 20121015
	lonestar	as necessary	Roland	updated 20121015
	orca	as necessary	Erik	?
	pandora	as necessary	Peter	?
	philip	as necessary	Frank	?
	queenbee	as necessary	Peter	updated 20121101
	stampede	as necessary	Tanja	?
	surveyor	as necessary	Erik	?
	supermike	as necessary	Frank	?
	tezpur	as necessary	Peter	updated 20121101
	trestles	as necessary	Bruno	updated 20121026
	supermuc	as necessary	Ian	?
	vesta	as necessary	Erik	?
	zwicky	as necessary	Roland	updated 20121015
	(private) amarok	as necessary	Peter	updated 20121101
	(private) bethe	as necessary	Roland	updated 20121015
	(private) cygnus	as necessary	Tanja	?
	(private) newhorizons	as necessary	Yosef	?
	(private) numrel	as necessary	Frank	?
	(private) redshift	as necessary	Erik	?
	(private) spine	as necessary	Frank	?
	(private) titan	as necessary	Erik	?
	(private) topf	as necessary	Frank	√?
Fix Testsuites	some thorn		someone	√
Check & Improve Documentation (www, wiki)			everyone	√
Write announcement texts (short and long)			Frank	√
Create release branch	svn.einsteintoolkit.org		Frank	?
	svn.cactuscode.org		Frank	?
	carpetcode.org		Ian	?
	aei.mpg.de		Frank	?
	svn.cct.lsu.edu		Frank	?
	github.com/ianhinder/Kranc.git		Ian	?
	github.com:gridaphobe/CRL.git		Frank	?