[Swift-devel] duplicated job submission in swift-0.92?

[Mihael Hategan]

I think both are good as they are.

Would you like me to send it?

Mihael

On Thu, 2011-03-31 at 20:57 -0500, Michael Wilde wrote:
> And I will send this to swift-user:
> 
> "Dear Swift Users,
> 
> On March 29 we discovered that the Release 0.92 branches of the Swift and CoG trees were changed after the release and a concurrency bug was introduced. If you are running Swift from this *source code* base, please revert back to a known-working release such as the 0.92 binary release if at all possible.
> 
> We're working on restoring the 0.92 SVN branch to the correct state and will report back to this email list when that is done."
> 
> Anything else to say?  Feel free to send this out, adjusted as needed, or just tell me what to change and I will.
> 
> - Mike
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> > Please check this proposed warning on the Downloads page and let me
> > know if its what we need there:
> > 
> > http://www.ci.uchicago.edu/~wilde/swift/downloads/index.php
> > 
> > I also fixed the 0.91 typo (but the downloads dont actually work from
> > this test web. I think they will once this is committed and pushed
> > live).
> > 
> > - Mike
> > 
> > 
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > > On Thu, 2011-03-31 at 20:14 -0500, Michael Wilde wrote:
> > > > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > > > > We decided the following:
> > > > > > - I will revert the changes in the 0.92 branch
> > > > > > - re-commit bug fixes that were committed after the merge
> > > > > > - merge the 0.92 branch to trunk
> > > > > > - fix the problems in trunk
> > > > >
> > > > > Sounds good. But when and how does the fix get to users?
> > > >
> > > > The package(s) are fine. Though we should probably also have a
> > > > source
> > > > package. The merge was done after the package(s) were uploaded to
> > > > the
> > > > swift site.
> > >
> > > Ah, great!
> > >
> > > > This only affects folks who have checked out from SVN the 0.92
> > > > branch
> > > > after the merge 9 days (or so) ago.
> > >
> > > Hmm - I question that. The release we use, based on 0.92 on Beagle,
> > > shows the twice-each error, and it was made on Feb 25, about 35 days
> > > ago. Does this merit clarification?
> > >
> > > > We should send an email to the user list once this is fixed. We
> > > > may
> > > > also
> > > > want to send an email warning them not to check out from SVN but
> > > > download the precompiled package instead.
> > >
> > > OK. I cant say that this will reach everyone. Perhaps some status
> > > notes on the Download page are in order. The 0.91 link there is
> > > wrong,
> > > so we need to fix that page anyways.
> > >
> > > > I am a bit confused though. I would have expected the release to
> > > > come
> > > > with some announcement of some form.
> > >
> > > Agreed. We kept this low profile because we were trying to
> > > coordinate
> > > it with a Web change that we never accomplished. And we've lost the
> > > habit of swift-user announcements but got to get back to doing that.
> > > So, yes.
> > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > Either create a 0.92.1 release (sounds hard based on above)
> > > > > or create a 0.93 release (in which case should we create the
> > > > > 0.93
> > > > > branch from trunk as soon as this is fixed?)
> > > > >
> > > > > How long to re-test? (Thats a question for Sarah, Justin, and
> > > > > Ketan)
> > > > > Could this include the Cray support mods?
> > > >
> > > > No! Fixing a problem is not a venue for introducing untested
> > > > things
> > > > into
> > > > a release.
> > >
> > > I meant the Cray feature for 0.93 not 0.92.1
> > > Yes, that should be tested.
> > > But its being used pretty heavily.
> > >
> > > - Mike
> > >
> > > > But it could be discussed separately :)
> > > >
> > > > Mihael
> > >
> > > --
> > > Michael Wilde
> > > Computation Institute, University of Chicago
> > > Mathematics and Computer Science Division
> > > Argonne National Laboratory
> > >
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> > --
> > Michael Wilde
> > Computation Institute, University of Chicago
> > Mathematics and Computer Science Division
> > Argonne National Laboratory
> > 
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