On Sun, Apr 22, 2012 at 5:25 AM, Ralf Gommers <[email protected]>wrote:
> > > On Sat, Apr 21, 2012 at 5:16 PM, Charles R Harris < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> >> >> On Sat, Apr 21, 2012 at 2:46 AM, Ralf Gommers < >> [email protected]> wrote: >> >>> >>> >>> On Fri, Apr 20, 2012 at 8:04 PM, Charles R Harris < >>> [email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> Hi All, >>>> >>>> Given the amount of new stuff coming in 1.7 and the slip in it's >>>> schedule, I wonder if it would be worth putting out a 1.6.2 release with >>>> fixes for einsum, ticket 1578, perhaps some others. My reasoning is that >>>> the fall releases of Fedora, Ubuntu are likely to still use 1.6 and they >>>> might as well use a somewhat fixed up version. The downside is located and >>>> backporting fixes is likely to be a fair amount of work. A 1.7 release >>>> would be preferable, but I'm not sure when we can make that happen. >>>> >>> >>> Travis still sounded hopeful of being able to resolve the 1.7 issues >>> relatively soon. On the other hand, even if that's done in one month we'll >>> still miss Debian stable and a 1.6.2 release won't be *that* much work. >>> >>> Let's go for it I would say. >>> >>> Aiming for a RC on May 2nd and final release on May 16th would work for >>> me. >>> >>> >> I count 280 BUG commits since 1.6.1, so we are going to need to thin >> those out. >> > > Indeed. We can discard all commits related to NA and datetime, and then we > should find some balance between how important the fixes are and how much > risk there is that they break something. I agree with the couple of > backports you've done so far, but I propose to do the rest via PRs. > > There's also build issues. I checked all of those and sent a PR with > backports of all the relevant ones: > https://github.com/numpy/numpy/pull/258 > > Hi Ralf, I went ahead and merged those. What's the easiest way to make things merge into the maintenance/1.6.x branch in the pull requests? Chuck
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