Release Details
Note that we created a new wiki page Release coordination to discuss details.
Schedule for ET_2017_06
- 2017-06-16: Slight freeze: no new major additions to the toolkit (new thorns or tools, major patches)
- 2017-06-19: Feature freeze: no new features allowed anymore, extensive testing begins
- 2017-06-23: Release branches are created, development version un-frozen again
- 2017-06-26: Total freeze of release branches, preparation of tar-balls etc. begins
- 2017-06-29: Target release date (or earlier if "ready")
Tasks
- done: New thorn: LORENE2, by default disabled in thornlist (not even build)
- done: Meudon_Bin_NS
- being worked on: Carpet and this==NULL
- being worked on (Chris Evans, GaTech), but needs help: McLachlan Testsuites fail
- done: EOS_Omni and piecewise polytropes
- needs lots more input: KNL performance
Not going to make it before the release:
- unlikely in release: New Diagnostics Thorns
- unlikely to make it, needs review: RNS
- unlikely to make it, needs review: Hydro Analysis Thorns
Tools/Links
- The release branch name will be ET_2017_06
- The release name will be needed to be discussed.
- The list of proposed names for last release was
- Chien-Shiung Wu
- Lorentz
- Tesla
- Wheeler
- DeWitt
- Feynman
- Turing
- Planck
- Hack
- Testsuite status page
- Instructions for running the tests using SimFactory: Testsuite Machines
- Release announcements: wiki sandbox
- 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/
- 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
| Task | Responsible | Status | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Regenerate all Kranc thorns (McLachlan, EinsteinExact and WeylScal4) | ||||
| Test all examples in the gallery (http://einsteintoolkit.org/about/gallery/) with the current thornlist, and update the thornlist mentioned on the page | ||||
| Update Tutorials | ||||
| (Re)run Testsuites | bluewaters | Roland | ||
| carver | ||||
| comet | Roland | |||
| golub | Roland | |||
| hydra | Ian | MPG cluster in Garching | ||
| minerva | Ian | |||
| edison | Roland | |||
| gordon | ? | |||
| fermi | Frank | |||
| queenbee | Frank | |||
| shelob | ||||
| stampede | Roland | about to be decommissioned | ||
| supermike | Frank | needs work on option list | ||
| supermuc | ? | |||
| zwicky | Roland | |||
| wheeler | Roland | succeds zwicky | ||
| (private) amarok | Peter | |||
| (private) bethe | Roland | |||
| (private) cygnus | Matt | |||
| (private) newhorizons | Yosef | |||
| (private) redshift | Erik | good | ||
| (private) spine (Debian Jessie) | Frank | ok | ||
| (private) titan | Erik | good | ||
| (private) Ubuntu LTS | Roland | |||
| (private) Ubuntu Current | Roland | |||
| (private) Debian Testing | Roland | |||
| (private) Fedora Current | Roland | |||
| Check & Improve Documentation (www, wiki) | everyone | |||
| Write announcement texts (Detailed Release Announcement) | Frank | |||
| Create release branch | bitbucket | Frank | ||
| svn.cactuscode.org | Frank | |||
| svn.cct.lsu.edu | Frank | |||
| github.com/ianhinder/Kranc.git | Frank | |||
| github.com:gridaphobe/CRL.git | Frank | |||
