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
• 2015-05-08 (tentatively): Release branches are created, development version un-frozen again
• 2015-05-11 (tentatively): Total freeze of release branches, preparation of tar-balls etc. begins
• 2015-05-12 (tentatively): Target release date (or earlier if "ready")

Tools/Links

• The release branch name will be ET_2015_05
• The release name will be Hilbert
• The list of proposed names for last release was
  • Mary Somerville
  • Caroline Herschel
  • Chien-Shiung Wu
  • Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin
  • Lorentz
  • Tesla
  • Wheeler
  • DeWitt
  • Feynman
  • 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.uni-frankfurt.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		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	bethe	A
	bluewaters	A
	carver	A
	datura	A
	edison	A
	gordon	A
	fermi	Frank
	hopper	A
	nvidia	A
	orca	A
	pandora	A
	philip	A
	queenbee
	shc	A
	shelob	A
	stampede	A
	stampede-mic	A	cannot run testsuite (file system is unreliable)
	supermike	A (Peter)	Compiler issues
	trestles	A
	supermuc		?
	zwicky	A
	(private) amarok	Peter
	(private) bethe	Roland
	(private) cygnus	Matt
	(private) newhorizons	Yosef
	(private) redshift	Erik	good
	(private) spine	Frank
	(private) titan	Erik	good
	(private) topf	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