[petsc-dev] plans for PETSc release

[Satish Balay]

On Sat, 23 Apr 2016, Jed Brown wrote:

> Satish Balay <balay at mcs.anl.gov> writes:
> 
> > Ok - the master tests ran overnight
> >
> > I've switched the day builds to maint. [nightbuilds are reverted to next]
> >
> > Also created maint-3.6 branch off maint - and updated maint with master.
> 
> Uh, then people that have been tracking 'maint' get something backward
> incompatible before a release has been tagged or announced.  I think
> that's rude.  How did this become the release process?  I thought we
> declared a merge deadline for 'master', feature freeze period, then
> tagged the release on 'master'.  That way people tracking 'maint' only
> get the new release changes after the release has been made.

I'm sure you'll find faults with my answer - but here it goes..

Master currently doesn't work as you describe. To me - currently we
are at RC [yeah - witout a change in petscversion.h or a tag] - and RC
to RELEASE should be via maint workflow - hence this update to maint.

I didn't intend to be rude to our 'maint' users. Ideally there should
have been a tracking branch maint-3.6 always - so users who whish to
time the switch from 3.6 to 3.7 do this on their terms [and not
implicitly via maint].

I'll make an annoucement to maint users about switching to maint-3.6
branch.

Satish