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Revision as of 01:02, 15 October 2020
Note that we created a new wiki page Release coordination to discuss details.
Contents
Schedule for ET_2020_11
- 2020-09-01: all codes proposed for inclusion in master branch (still under review) ✓
- 2020-11-12: all codes proposed for inclusion have finished review
- 2020-11-12: decide on name
- 2020-11-12: Feature freeze: no new features allowed anymore, extensive testing begins
- gallery examples
- test simfactory on clusters
- test in docker images / VM for "common" OS
- 2020-11-14: Announce date publicly
- 2020-11-20: draft release announcement
- 2020-11-26: testing done
- 2020-11-26: hard freeze, no more changes at all
- 2020-11-26: make branches, prepare updates for websites, test-send announcement (to maintainers@einsteintoolkit.org)
- 2020-11-29: release.
Schedule for ET_2020_05
- 2020-03-01: all codes proposed for inclusion in master branch (still under review) ✓
- 2020-05-14: all codes proposed for inclusion have finished review ✓
- 2020-05-14: decide on name List of potential names: will be named "Turing" ✓
- 2020-05-14: Feature freeze: no new features allowed anymore, extensive testing begins
- gallery examples
- test simfactory on clusters
- test in docker images / VM for "common" OS
- 2020-05-16: Announce date publicly ✓
- 2020-05-22: draft release announcement ✓
- 2020-05-28: testing done
- 2020-05-28: hard freeze, no more changes at all
- 2020-05-28: make branches ✓, prepare updates for websites, test-send announcement (to maintainers@einsteintoolkit.org) ✓
- 2020-05-31: release.
Schedule for ET_2019_10
- 2019-09-26 slight freeze
- No new tickets unless they are required for test cases to pass
- Fishbone-Moncrief and Self-Force can still be worked on
- 2019-10-21 complete freeze
- 2019-10-24 pull the trigger, make all branches
Schedule for ET_2018_08
- 2018-08-27 slight freeze
- 2018-09-07 complete freeze, everything should be done and waiting
- 2018-09-14 pull the trigger, make all the branches
New thorns: Giraffe, RNSID, WVUThorns What else?
Schedule for ET_2018_02
- 2018-02-07: Complete freeze: no new additions to the toolkit (no changes)
- 2018-01-26: Slight freeze: no new major additions to the toolkit (new thorns or tools, major patches)
- 2018-01-26: Feature freeze: no new features allowed anymore, extensive testing begins. We make an exception for RNS Id thorn and Erik's Darwin patch.
- 2018-02-02: Release branches are created, development version un-frozen again
- 2018-02-09: Total freeze of release branches, preparation of tar-balls etc. begins
- 2018-02-12: Target release date (or earlier if "ready")
Tools/Links
- The list of proposed names for last release was
- Lorentz
- DeWitt-Morette †2017
- DeWitt †2004
- Feynman
- Planck
- Heisenberg
- Schrödinger
- Riemann
- Gödel
- Grossman
- Zwicky †1974
- Maria Agnesi (Mathematician †1799)
- Laura Maria Caterina Bassi (Astronomer †1778)
- Harriet Brooks (Nuclear physics †1933)
- Annie Jump Cannon (Astronomer †1941)
- Émilie du Châtelet (†1749)
- Annie Easley (Mathematician, computer scientist, rocket scientist †2011)
- Sophie Germain (Mathematician, †1831)
- Lise Meitner (Nuclear phyisics)
- Sofia Kovalevskaya (Mathematecian, of the Cauchy–Kowalevski theorem)
- Female Scientists
- Prior releases
- The list of names already used, see also on the website's past releases page
- Turing: May 2020
- Maria Goeppert Mayer (Physicist, Nobel prize 1963, 1972): October 2019
- Proca: March 2019
- Wu: September 2018
- Tesla: February 2018
- Hack: June 2017
- Payne-Gaposchkin: Nov 2016
- Brahe: May 2016
- Sommerville: Nov 2015
- Hilbert: May 2015
- Herschel: Nov 2014
- Wheeler: May 2014
- Noether: Nov 2013
- Gauss: May 2013
- Ørsted: Nov 2012
- Lovelace: May 2012
- Maxwell: Oct 2011
- Curie: May 2011
- Chandrasekhar: Nov 2010
- Bohr: June 2010
- Considered and rejected names
- Testsuite status page
- Instructions for running the tests using SimFactory: Testsuite Machines
- Release announcements: wiki sandbox
- See list in Release Process
- 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.
Release Plan
Test status is on Release coordination page.
