Release Details

Details for ET_2023_05

Release team

• Leo Werneck, release manager
• Sam Cupp, release co-manager
• Roland Haas, release manager emeritus

Proposed Inclusions

• Inclusions for this release:
  • Elliptica reader (and solver timeline) Ticket #2619 -- Reviewer: Beyhan
  • FUKA reader announcement and Ticket #2692 -- Reviewer: Konrad Topolski
  • Baikal read/writes support -- Reviewer: Leo Werneck
  • particle_tracerET minor feature improvement Ticket #2691 -- Reviewer: Terrence Pierre Jacques
  • TwoPunctures_BBHSF Ticket #2697 -- Reviewer: Thiago Assumpção
  • NPScalars_SF Ticket #2697 -- Reviewer: Peter Diener
  • New kuibit version Ticket #2696 -- Reviewer: Cheng-Hsin Cheng

• Inclusions for future releases:
  • Fishbone-Moncrief gallery example Ticket #2687
  • CarpetX pre-release code review also beginning during this release cycle -- reviewers: Steve, Zach; one more?
  • The inclusions of the major updates to IllinoisGRMHD Ticket #2690, NRPyEOS Ticket #2688, and NRPyLeakage Ticket #2689 were postponed to the next release cycle in favor of including GRHayL (the General Relativistic Hydrodynamic Library).

Schedule

• 2023-01-18 (-18wk): propose functionality to include
• 2023-02-01 (-16wk): choose features which are going to be included
  • ask for review volunteers, assign tasks to people
  • create tickets for each proposed item tickets repo
  • decide on a list of release-critical compute systems
• 2023-03-15 (-10wk): all codes proposed for inclusion in master branch (still under review)
• 2023-03-29 (-8wk): all codes proposed for inclusion have finished review
• 2023-03-29 (-8wk): regenerate Kranc and NRPy+ codes
• 2023-03-29 (-8wk): start testing
  • gallery examples
  • test simfactory on clusters
  • test in docker images / VM for "common" OS
• 2023-04-19 (-5wk): decide on name
• 2023-04-26 (-4wk): feature freeze: no new features allowed anymore, extensive testing begins
• 2023-04-26 (-4wk): create first draft of the release notes as an md file
  • Identify contributors to the release
  • Identify the release team
  • Identify major changes to call out in the release notes.
• 2023-04-26 (-4wk): announce date publicly
• 2023-05-10 (-2wk): draft release announcement
• 2023-05-17 (-1wk): testing done
• 2023-05-17 (-1wk): hard freeze, no more changes at all
• 2023-05-17 (-1wk): make branches, prepare updates for websites, test-send announcement (to maintainers@einsteintoolkit.org)
• 2023-05-24: release date

Details for ET_2022_11

Possible Functionality

• Canuda scalar and complex fields ticket
• FLRW solver ticket
• SelfForce-1D ticket
• NRPyEllipticET (ticket
• FUKA v2 (maybe, see announcement)
• ID readers for SGRID and Elliptica

Schedule

• 2022-07-14 (4mo, 2weeks): propose functionality to include
• 2022-07-21 (4mo): Choose features which are going to be included
  • ask for review volunteers, assign tasks to people
  • create tickets for each proposed item tickets repo
  • decide on a list of release-critical compute systems
• 2022-09-01 (-10wk): all codes proposed for inclusion in master branch (still under review)
• 2022-09-15 (-2mo): all codes proposed for inclusion have finished review
• 2022-09-15 (-2mo): Regenerate Kranc and NRPy+ codes
• 2022-09-15 (-2mo): start testing
  • gallery examples
  • test simfactory on clusters
  • test in docker images / VM for "common" OS
• 2022-10-06 (-5wks): decide on name
• 2022-10-13 (-1mo): Feature freeze: no new features allowed anymore, extensive testing begins
• 2022-10-13 (-1mo): Create first draft of the release notes as an md file
  • Identify contributors to the release
  • Identify the release team
  • Identify major changes to call out in the release notes.
• 2022-10-13 (-1mo): Announce date publicly
• 2022-10-27 (-2wk): draft release announcement
• 2022-11-03 (-1wk): testing done
• 2022-11-03 (-1wk): hard freeze, no more changes at all
• 2022-11-03 (-1wk): make branches, prepare updates for websites, test-send announcement (to maintainers@einsteintoolkit.org)
• 2022-11-10: release, Thu before SC 22 and 2 wks before US Thanksgiving

(1mo = 4wks)

Release names

• The list of proposed names for last release was
  • DeWitt †2004
  • Feynman
  • Planck
  • Heisenberg
  • Schrödinger
  • 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
  • Riemann
  • Johnson †2020
  • Lorentz: May 2021
  • DeWitt-Morette: November 2020
  • 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
  • Marsha Berger
  • Roy Kerr

Tools/Links

• 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.