[petsc-dev] Schedule for next release

[Smith, Barry F.]

  There are bunch of PR on BitBucket that very likely belong in the release and they haven't even been moved over yet

  Barry


> On Sep 12, 2019, at 1:02 AM, Balay, Satish via petsc-dev <petsc-dev at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:
> 
> Just a reminder about the release.
> 
> With the new CI workflow at gitlab - perhaps we can start the freeze
> on sept 18. [and not wait for PRs that are not ready], and still aim
> for sept 23 release.
> 
> Satish
> 
> On Wed, 14 Aug 2019, Karl Rupp via petsc-dev wrote:
> 
>> Hi all,
>> 
>> let me propose the following schedule for the next release:
>> 
>> * until Sunday, September 15: New pull requests are considered for the
>> upcoming release.
>> 
>> * from Monday, September 16, to Sunday, September 22: Fixing and merging of
>> open pull requests received by September 15. Extended testing of `master`.
>> Simple bug-fix pull requests are still considered.
>> 
>> * from Monday, September 23: Satish spins the release as soon as all fixes are
>> in.
>> 
>> With this schedule we will have a release by the end of September. The
>> 'merging period' is shorter than for previous releases, because the pull
>> request workflow requires less bugfixing right before the release.
>> 
>> Satish, does this schedule work for you? Or should we move everything forward
>> by one week?
>> 
>> Any comments are of course welcome.
>> 
>> Best regards,
>> Karli
>> 
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