[petsc-dev] petsc release plan for march 2021

[Patrick Sanan]

> Am 09.03.2021 um 19:58 schrieb Satish Balay via petsc-dev <petsc-dev at mcs.anl.gov>:
> 
> All,
> 
> Its time for another PETSc release - due end of March.
> 
> For this release [3.15], will work with the following dates:
> 
> - feature freeze: March 28 say 5PM EST
> - release: March 30 say 5PM EST
> 
> Merges after freeze should contain only fixes that would normally be acceptable to release workflow.
> 
> I've created a new milestone 'v3.14-release'. So if you are working on a MR with the goal of merging before release - its best to use this tag with the MR.
v3.15-release ?
> 
> And it would be good to avoid merging large changes at the last minute. And not have merge requests stuck in need of reviews, testing and other necessary tasks.
> 
> And I would think the testing/CI resources would get stressed in this timeframe - so it would be good to use them judiciously if possible.
> 
> - if there are failures in stage-2 or 3 - and its no longer necessary to complete all the jobs - one can 'cancel' the pipeline.
> - if a fix needs to be tested - one can first test with only the failed jobs (if this is known) - before doing a full test pipeline. i.e:
>   - use the automatically started and paused 'merge-request' pipeline (or start new 'web' pipeline, and cancel it immediately)
>   - now toggle only the jobs that need to be run
>   - [on success of the selected jobs] if one wants to run the full pipeleine - click 'retry' - and the remaining canceled jobs should now get scheduled.
> 
> Thanks,
> Satish