Release Details

Note that we created a new wiki page Release coordination to discuss details.

Schedule for ET_2018_02

New thorns: Giraffe, RNSID What else?

Schedule for ET_2017_07

(This is out of date. As of 2017-07-10, we are planning to release as soon as the McLachlan ADMConstraints patch has been corrected, and the tests have been rerun by Roland on the final version.)

• 2017-06-16: Slight freeze: no new major additions to the toolkit (new thorns or tools, major patches)
• 2017-06-19: Feature freeze: no new features allowed anymore, extensive testing begins
• 2017-06-23: Release branches are created, development version un-frozen again
• 2017-06-26: Total freeze of release branches, preparation of tar-balls etc. begins
• 2017-06-29: Target release date (or earlier if "ready")

Tasks

• done: New thorn: LORENE2, by default disabled in thornlist (not even build)
• done: Meudon_Bin_NS
• done: Carpet and this==NULL
• Regexp needs fixing (Peter and Steve), and then testing (Roland): McLachlan Testsuites fail
• done: EOS_Omni and piecewise polytropes
• not for this release KNL performance

Not going to make it before the release, should be done directly after:

• New Diagnostics Thorns
• RNS
• Hydro Analysis Thorns

Tools/Links

• The release branch name will be ET_2017_07
• The release name is Hack.
• The list of proposed names for last release was
  • Chien-Shiung Wu
  • Lorentz
  • Tesla
  • Wheeler
  • DeWitt
  • Feynman
  • Turing
  • Planck
  • Hack
• Testsuite status page
• Instructions for running the tests using SimFactory: Testsuite Machines
• Release announcements: wiki sandbox
• 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/
• 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.

Task		Responsible	Status
Regenerate all Kranc thorns (McLachlan, EinsteinExact and WeylScal4)		Ian	Done
Regenerate all documentation web pages			To do
Test all examples in the gallery (http://einsteintoolkit.org/gallery/) with the current thornlist, and update the thornlist mentioned on the page		Multipatch: Ian ( , BBH: Ian	Multipatch: Done, BBH: Done
Update Tutorials		Simplified: Roland	To do
(Re)run Testsuites	bluewaters	Roland
	carver
	comet	Roland
	galileo	Roberto	CINECA Tier1 Machine
	golub	Roland
	hydra	Roland	MPG cluster in Garching
	marconi A1	Roberto	CINECA Tier0 Machine
	marconi A2	Roberto	CINECA Tier0 Machine (KNL)
	minerva	Roland
	edison	Roland
	queenbee	Roland
	shelob
	stampede	Roland	about to be decommissioned
	supermike	Frank	needs work on option list
	supermuc		?
	zwicky	Roland
	wheeler	Roland	succeds zwicky
	(private) amarok	Peter
	(private) bethe	Roland
	(private) cygnus	Matt
	(private) newhorizons	Yosef
	(private) redshift	Erik	good
	(private) spine (Debian Jessie)	Frank	ok
	(private) titan	Erik	good
	(private) Ubuntu LTS	Roland
	(private) Ubuntu Current	Roland
(private) Debian Testing	Roland
(private) Fedora Current	Roland
Check & Improve Documentation (www, wiki)		everyone	To do
Write announcement texts (Detailed Release Announcement)		Frank	To do
Create release branch	bitbucket	Frank	To do
	svn.cactuscode.org	Frank	To do
	svn.cct.lsu.edu	Frank	To do
	github.com/ianhinder/Kranc.git	Frank	To do
	github.com:gridaphobe/CRL.git	Frank	To do