Release Details

Schedule for ET_2014_05

• 2014-04-21: Slight freeze: no new major additions to the toolkit (new thorns or tools, major patches)
• 2014-05-05: Feature freeze: no new features allowed anymore, extensive testing begins
• 2014-05-12: Release branches are created, development version un-frozen again
• 2014-05-15: Total freeze of release branches, preparation of tar-balls ect. begins
• 2014-05-19: Target release data (or earlier if "ready")

Tools/Links

• The release branch name will be ET_2014_05
• The release name is not yet fixed
• The list of proposed names for last release was
  • Lorentz
  • Tesla
  • Wheeler
  • DeWitt
  • Feynman
  • Hilbert
  • Turing
  • Brahe
  • Planck
• 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		?
	bluewaters	as necessary	Roland	good
	forge	as necessary		?
	hopper	as necessary		good
	jenkins	as necessary		?
	lonestar	as necessary
	orca	as necessary		good
	pandora	as necessary		?
	philip	as necessary		?
	queenbee	as necessary		updated 20121101
	stampede	as necessary		?
	stampede-mic	as necessary		cannot run testsuite (file system is unreliable)
	supermike	as necessary		?
	tezpur	as necessary		updated 20121101
	trestles	as necessary		updated 20121026
	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	√?
	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	?