[petsc-users] Release canditate?

[Barry Smith]

> On Dec 11, 2015, at 10:35 PM, Éric Chamberland <Eric.Chamberland at giref.ulaval.ca> wrote:
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> Le 2015-12-11 23:22, Barry Smith a écrit :
>>   Eric,
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>>    Would it be possible for the release candidates to be a git repository branch or does it have to be a tarball? Generating and regenerating the
> for sure, if you want a maximum of RC testers, I think it should be a tarball...  In my book, a RC is eventually the final release so everything must be the same...
>> tarball is a time consuming process which is why we don't use release candidates, but if you are able to test off the git repository we could
> ok, but hmmm, why isn't it possible to automate the making of the tarball?
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>> certainly "pre announce" releases and allow testing before the actual release.
> If tarballs are impossible, I would certainly take the time to test a pre-announce release.

  Ok, we'll try to make rc tarballs and announce them on petsc-announce before the real release.

   Thanks for the suggestion.

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> btw, the petsc-announce mailing list is somewhat silent...

   We try to use it only for releases.

  Barry


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> Thanks anyway to have evaluated the idea! :)
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> Eric
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>>   Barry
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>>> On Dec 11, 2015, at 10:18 PM, Éric Chamberland <Eric.Chamberland at giref.ulaval.ca> wrote:
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>>> Hi,
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>>> we just waited since petsc 3.5.4 until 3.6.3 to retrieve a working petsc for our usages (got bugs with 3.6.1, 3.6.2)
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>>> Now, just discovered 3.6.3 have a bug with mkl_pardiso... :/
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>>> We will have to wait until 3.6.4 (or patch the source with 3f7bb31...
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>>> I was thinking that it could have been otherwise if release candidate packages would have been made available for anyone to test...
>>> and to give you feedback... and then a better official release...
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>>> We can easily install it here and use the RC with our non-regression tests.
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>>> Maybe other users would be interested, like me, to test the release candidates?
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>>> Does that sounds interesting to you?
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>>> Thanks,
>>> 
>>> Eric
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