Re: [matplotlib-devel] Upcoming Debian stable release and matplotlib new release(s)

[Eric F. <ef...@ha...>]

On 04/23/2010 02:44 AM, John Hunter wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 4:40 PM, Sandro Tosi<mo...@de...>  wrote:
>> Hello all,
>> in some time (let's say a couple of months, maybe more) Debian will
>> enter the "freeze" period, where no new upstream releases are
>> accepted, in order to prepare the best stable release we can :)
>>
>> In the past months I see many changes are accumulated in the SVN but
>> no new release are done. I don't know if you've already discussed
>> about releasing mpl, but it would be nice if we can have something
>> before the freeze, so to have a quite-update mpl in squeeze.
>>
>> > From my POV, I'll provide all the support needed, so if there
>> something I can do just tell me :)
>
> Hey Sandro,
>
> thanks for the head's up.  We would like to get a 1.0 release out and
> there are two roadbumps we have to navigate first.  We'd like to
> transition our VCS to git, and this impacts our release schedule

John et al.,

1) It looks like numpy is about to make the jump to github.  Their 
discussion includes interesting points of strategy.  Their intention is 
to develop the strategy via an NEP.

2) If I understand correctly, a key question is who will have commit 
rights to the master repo on github.  It seems that an exception is 
required to allow that access to more than one person.  My sense is that 
ideally we should have more than one person with that access, but far 
fewer people than presently have svn commit access.  Those with access 
would then be asked to pull changes into the master from other people's 
clones--which would be github branches under their control.

3) Is it really a good idea to delay the release until the we make the 
github transition?  Given how long it has been since a release, and the 
possibility that there will be some turbulence until we have had some 
experience with github, I think it would be better to release first and 
transition immediately afterwards.

Eric



> because of the "get_sample_data" support in the trunk which currently
> pulls the data from svn but would have to be refactored to pull from
> hit and we'd like to make the transition before we do a release.
> Andrew, who is handling the git transition, has been very tied up of
> late, but thinks he'll have some time in early May.  The other issue
> is my dead OSX build box -- I have access to a 64bit python 2.6
> platform for builds for OSX, but currently no other platforms/versions
> so I have to sink some time into this for a release, though this is
> not a show stopper as we could do a release with incomplete binary
> support for OSX.
>
> So keep our feet to the fire and make sure we don't fall too far
> behind so we can get something out before the freeze, hopefully far
> enough before the freeze that we can get at least one bugfix release
> out...
>
> JDH
>
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