[petsc-dev] What needs to be done before a release?

[Barry Smith]

  Sean,

  Matt is suggesting a code freeze on May 11. That is what his email says.


  Barry

On May 5, 2012, at 9:59 PM, Sean Farley wrote:

>> Can we commit to a hard deadline? I would like the freeze for testing May
>> 11, and clone and release May 14.
> 
> I don't think we can ever commit to a hard deadline until we actually
> implement a code freeze. There are too many people that push broken
> code to ever have a hard deadline like you suggest.