Release Details

Schedule for ET_2015_05

• 2015-04-27: Slight freeze: no new major additions to the toolkit (new thorns or tools, major patches)
• 2015-05-30: Feature freeze: no new features allowed anymore, extensive testing begins
• 2015-05-04: Release branches are created, development version un-frozen again
• 2015-05-08: Total freeze of release branches, preparation of tar-balls etc. begins
• 2015-05-11: Target release date (or earlier if "ready")

Tools/Links

• The release branch name will be ET_2015_05
• The release name is not yet fixed
• The list of proposed names for last release was
  • Mary Somerville
  • Caroline Herschel
  • Chien-Shiung Wu
  • Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin
  • Lorentz
  • Tesla
  • Wheeler
  • DeWitt
  • Feynman
  • Hilbert
  • Turing
  • Brahe
  • Planck
• New Testsuite status page
• Old Testsuite Status page (add the testsuite *.log files created by scripts below to the repository at [1] to have them automatically included)
• Instructions for running the tests using SimFactory: Testsuite Machines
• 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/
• 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) I usually (at irregular intevals) test the testsuites on Debian (stable), Ubuntu (latest) and Fedora (latest though that requires changes to simfactory I think) machines. This tests debian.cfg, ubuntu.cfg and fedora.cfg so that they work with the simplified instructions. I do not test on OSX (since I hardly use it). (Roland)

Release Plan

Task		Due date	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	datura	as necessary
	bluewaters	as necessary
	forge	as necessary
	hopper	as necessary
	jenkins	as necessary
	lonestar	as necessary
	orca	as necessary
	pandora	as necessary
	philip	as necessary
	queenbee	as necessary
	stampede	as necessary
	stampede-mic	as necessary		cannot run testsuite (file system is unreliable)
	supermike	as necessary	Peter	Compiler issues
	tezpur	as necessary
	trestles	as necessary
	supermuc	as necessary		?
	vesta	as necessary		cannot run testsuite (job submission is weird)
	zwicky	as necessary
	(private) amarok	as necessary	Peter	updated 20121101
	(private) bethe	as necessary	Roland
	(private) cygnus	as necessary	Matt	?
	(private) newhorizons	as necessary	Yosef	?
	(private) redshift	as necessary	Erik	good
	(private) spine	as necessary	Frank	?
	(private) titan	as necessary	Erik	good
	(private) topf	as necessary	Frank	√?
	Check & Improve Documentation (www, wiki)			everyone	√
	Write announcement texts (short and long)			Frank	√
	Create release branch	bitbucket		Frank	?
svn.cactuscode.org			Frank	?
aei.mpg.de			Frank	?
svn.cct.lsu.edu			Frank	?
github.com/ianhinder/Kranc.git			Frank	?
github.com:gridaphobe/CRL.git			Frank	?