Re: [matplotlib-devel] [Matplotlib-users] Plan to merge the matplotlib-py3 branch?

[Michael D. <md...@st...>]

On 06/15/2011 01:00 PM, Darren Dale wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 12:49 PM, Michael Droettboom<md...@st...>  wrote:
>> On 06/15/2011 12:13 PM, Darren Dale wrote:
>>> On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 10:06 AM, John Hunter<jd...@gm...>    wrote:
>>>> On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 9:02 AM, Darren Dale<dsd...@gm...>    wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> I suggest we make a 1.1.x branch from the current state of master, and
>>>>> consider it as a placeholder for now. Then we bump the version number
>>>>> in the py3 repo to *2.0*, merge py3/master back into mpl/master, and
>>>>> delete the py3 repo. The reason for bumping to v2.0 is simply to draw
>>>>> everyone's attention to the fact the next release will be the first to
>>>>> drop support for<=python-2.5. Once folks start working with the
>>>>> master (2.0) branch, if we have any complaints that a version 1.1
>>>>> release was needed after all, we can cut it from the 1.1.x placeholder
>>>>> branch.
>>>> This works for me -- I obviously dropped the ball pushing for a 1.1
>>>> release, but this will be a good impetus.  Should we give people a
>>>> couple of days to close any open tickets they want or push any last
>>>> minute changes in that we want before making the 1.1 release branch?
>>>> Once we branch, I suggest only release critical bug fixes go in as we
>>>> discussed last.
>>> Each pull request gets assigned to an issue.
>> How do I apply labels to an issue with an associated pull request?  I see
>> how to do it for free-standing issues, but not the pull request ones.
> On the main issues page, you can select the check box for an issue,
> and then you can use the label, assignee, milestone widgets at the top
> of the issues list
>
Ok.  I have also added a milestone for v1.0.x for simple fixes to very 
well-defined bugs -- things we should be able to get out as soon as 
possible.

Mike

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Michael Droettboom
Science Software Branch
Space Telescope Science Institute
Baltimore, Maryland, USA