Release Details

Note that we created a new wiki page Release coordination to discuss details.

Schedule for ET_2020_05

• 2020-03-01: all codes proposed for inclusion in master branch (still under review)
• 2020-05-07: all codes proposed for inclusion have finished review
• 2020-05-07: decide on name List of potential names: will be named "Turing" ✓
• 2020-05-07: Feature freeze: no new features allowed anymore, extensive testing begins (one week before APS meeting)
  • 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
• 2020-05-26: testing done
• 2020-05-26: hard freeze, no more changes at all
• 2020-05-26: 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: April 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
  • Marsha Berger
  • Roy Kerr
• 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.

Task		Responsible	Status
Regenerate all Kranc thorns (McLachlan, EinsteinExact and WeylScal4)		Ian	Done
Regenerate all documentation web pages			To do
Test all examples in the gallery (http://einsteintoolkit.org/gallery/) with the current thornlist, and update the thornlist mentioned on the page		Multipatch: Ian ( , BBH: Ian	Multipatch: Done, BBH: Done
Update Tutorials		Simplified: Roland	To do
(Re)run Testsuites
	(private) 105aff02 (OSX, High Siera with HomeBrew)	Roland
	OSX, High Siera with MacPorts	Ian	Done (05-Feb-2018)
	(private) bethe	Roland
	bluewaters	Roland	Failures for test_ah, test_ob, test_idaxibrill and test_idaxibrill_nostagger are SEGFAULTs in useta_@shmgp.f:1124 that persist even when I move from gcc 4.9 to gcc 6.3 so seem genuine and not compiler bug
	comet	Roland
	cori	Roland
	draco	Roland
	edison	Roland
	edison	Roland
	(private) ekohaes8 (Debian Testing)	Roland
	golub	Roland
	hydra	Roland
	minerva	Roland
	qb	Roland
	shelob	Roland
	supermike	Roland	needs work on option list
	stampede2	Roland
	stampede2-skx	Roland
	wheeler	Roland
	galileo	Roberto	CINECA Tier1 Machine
	marconi A1	Roberto	CINECA Tier0 Machine
	marconi A2	Roberto	CINECA Tier0 Machine (KNL)
	supermuc		?
	(private) amarok	Peter
	(private) cygnus	Matt
(private) newhorizons	Yosef
(private) redshift	Erik	good
(private) spine (Debian Jessie)	Frank	ok
(private) titan	Erik	good
Check & Improve Documentation (www, wiki)		everyone	To do
Write announcement texts (Detailed Release Announcement)		Frank	To do
Create release branch	bitbucket	Frank	To do
	svn.cactuscode.org	Frank	To do
	svn.cct.lsu.edu	Frank	To do
	github.com/ianhinder/Kranc.git	Frank	To do
	github.com:gridaphobe/CRL.git	Frank	To do