[Dune] Release plans for Dune 2.2?

[Oliver Sander]

Hi,
I am in favor of a quick 2.2 release.  Christoph's reasons are valid
(even though a bit more backporting to 2.1 would also help him),
but I have another one: We plan to get a Dune release into the next
Debian stable distribution.  The next Debian feature freeze is
scheduled to be around June, so if we have released Dune 2.2 until
then it can be included.  Otherwise we will be forced to upload 2.1.

Best,
Oliver

Am 14.03.2012 08:39, schrieb Christoph Grüninger:
> Hi Dune developers,
> do you have any plans for a Dune 2.2 release?
> I'd like to discuss a release before June (PDESoft / Dune Developer
> Meeting / Dune User Meeting), after June, or even later like end of the
> year or early next year.
> Some arguments I was thinking about:
>
> - It is difficult to stay compatible to both Dune 2.1 and Dune 2.2-svn.
> The warnings from dune-geometry drive me crazy. And I stumbled over a
> problem when creating a tarball for a external dune module; it could not
> find dune-grid because dune-geometry was not in the include path but the
> dune-grid tests needs it.
>
> - The list of recent changes is not too bad and I'd like to have some of
> the new features in projects relying only on stable releases. This
> contains convenience features (DUNE_UNUSED, DUNE_DEPRECATED_MSG),
> compatibility features (autoconf warnings, SuperLU 4.3), and the bunch
> of little bug fixes (e.g. naming of VTK files, bug in array detection,
> missing header in array.hh)
>
> - We must wait for open tasks like return geometries as real objects,
> virtual refinement, general dynamic parameter interface for grids. Or we
> reschedule them for dune 2.2+1.
>
> - We deprecated quite a lot of things. A later release would even
> increase this number making the transition more work for users.
>
> - If we can release before the developer meeting, new features could be
> directly implemented. Otherwise they either should be postponed or would
> delay the release.
>
> When speaking about releasing. Would you mind to have a look on the wiki
> page about the release manager's job description? Felix Albrecht started
> the page and I added my own experiences:
>
> http://users.dune-project.org/projects/main-wiki/wiki/Guides_release_manager
>
>
> Bye
> Christoph
>