[petsc-dev] petsc release plan for Mar/2023

[Satish Balay]

A reminder, the feature freeze for the upcoming release is in a couple of days.

Satish

On Tue, 28 Feb 2023, Satish Balay wrote:

> Its time for another PETSc release - due end of March.
> 
> For this release [3.19], lets work with the following dates:
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> - 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" work-flow.
> 
> I've created a new milestone 'v3.19-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.
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> 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.
> 
> Thanks,
> Satish
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