[petsc-dev] getting ready for PETSc release

[Barry Smith]

On Jun 8, 2014, at 5:10 PM, Jed Brown <jed at jedbrown.org> wrote:

> Blaise A Bourdin <bourdin at lsu.edu> writes:
>>>  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.
> 
> I think we should move to a faster release schedule.  At least once
> every six months from here out.

   You’ve been advocating this for a while and I don’t disagree; so why hasn’t it worked out? Do we really have to state publicly a release date and then force it upon ourselves to make these regular releases? Is it worth it? I’m just asking, I’m not opposing.

   Barry

>  Releases are easier that way and there
> would be less motivation to try to cram more features in before a
> deadline.  Though this means that a somewhat higher fraction of users
> might have an older version of PETSc (and it might be worth our while to
> do bug fixes against an older 'maint').