Release Details

Schedule for ET_2013_11

• 2013-11-04: Slight freeze: no new major additions to the toolkit (new thorns or tools, major patches)
• 2013-11-08: Feature freeze: no new features allowed anymore, extensive testing begins
• 2013-11-11: Release branches are created, development version un-frozen again
• 2013-11-13: Total freeze of release branches, preparation of tar-balls ect. begins
• 2013-11-15: Target release data (or earlier if "ready")

Tools/Links

• The release branch name will be ET_2013_11
• The release name will be Noether
• The current list of proposed names was
  • Lorentz
  • Tesla
  • Wheeler
  • DeWitt
  • Feynman
  • Hilbert
  • Turing
  • Brahe
  • Planck
  • Noether
• 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/
• TODO update: List of commits since the last release: Einstein Toolkit ChangeLog
• ChangeLog text
• 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)

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
(Re)run Testsuites	datura	as necessary	Ian	?
	bluewaters	as necessary	Erik	good
	forge	as necessary		?
	hopper	as necessary	Erik	good
	jenkins	as necessary	Ian	?
	kraken	as necessary	Roland
	lonestar	as necessary	Roland
	orca	as necessary	Erik	good
	pandora	as necessary	Peter	?
	philip	as necessary	Frank	?
	queenbee	as necessary	Peter	updated 20121101
	stampede	as necessary	Matt	?
	stampede-mic	as necessary	Erik	cannot run testsuite (file system is unreliable)
	supermike	as necessary	Frank	?
	tezpur	as necessary	Peter	updated 20121101
	trestles	as necessary	Bruno	updated 20121026
	supermuc	as necessary	Ian	?
	vesta	as necessary	Erik	cannot run testsuite (job submission is weird)
	zwicky	as necessary	Roland
	(private) amarok	as necessary	Peter	updated 20121101
	(private) bethe	as necessary	Roland
	(private) cygnus	as necessary	Matt	?
	(private) newhorizons	as necessary	Yosef	?
	(private) numrel	as necessary	Frank	?
	(private) redshift	as necessary	Erik	good
	(private) spine	as necessary	Frank	?
	(private) titan	as necessary	Erik	good
	(private) topf	as necessary	Frank	√?
	Fix Testsuites	some thorn		someone	√
Check & Improve Documentation (www, wiki)			everyone	√
Write announcement texts (short and long)			Frank	√
Create release branch	svn.einsteintoolkit.org		Frank	?
	svn.cactuscode.org		Frank	?
	carpetcode.org		Frank	?
	aei.mpg.de		Frank	?
	svn.cct.lsu.edu		Frank	?
	github.com/ianhinder/Kranc.git		Frank	?
	github.com:gridaphobe/CRL.git		Frank	?
	github.com:rhaas80/Outflow.git		Frank	?