[petsc-dev] getting ready for PETSc release

[Blaise A Bourdin]

On Jun 8, 2014, at 4:58 PM, Barry Smith <bsmith at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:

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>  Delaying the release is unlikely to get that I/O “fixed” faster so I don’t want to block on it.
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>   If the “fixes” for the I/O don’t require current API changes (but could require some new functions) then it is reasonable to include them as in a “patch” release so it need not wait for a full release. If the I/O requires total restructuring then I guess you stuck working off master for the new I/O until the next release.
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>   We’ve been over a year since a release which is too long.

That’s fair.

As a matter of fact, if the releases are not as far apart, skipping one is not a big deal.

Blaise


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>   Barry
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> On Jun 8, 2014, at 3:02 PM, Blaise A Bourdin <bourdin at lsu.edu> wrote:
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>> Hi,
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>> I hate to be the party pooper, especially when I don’t have code to contribute, but I/O with DMComplex is still far from release ready. Is it reasonable that having functional I/O in a stable release is going to wait until 3.6?
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>> I still can’t figure out how to deal with cell sets of different types (say quads and tri). 
>> All cell and vertex sets seem to be contained in the hdf5 file, but not in a way that is usable by post processing tools (visit, paraview, ensight).
>> The xdmf generation script bin/pythonscripts/petsc_gen_xdmf.py is quite fragile.
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>> I understand that it is probably too late to get this fixed and tested in 3.5. What is the best course of action?
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>> Blaise 
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>>> We’ll be making a PETSc release in a few days so please get anything you need into next for testing and movement over to master.
>>> 
>>> Barry
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>>> Tentative plan for release Wed June 11
>>> 
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