Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

"Jeff Hill" <[email protected]> · Mon, 30 Jun 2008 09:10:32 -0600

I will be away on vacation all of the first (Olympic NP), 
and last (Weminuche Wilderness), week of July. Also, on the
MagViz project we have the majority of our project
deliverables due in early Aug.

Jeff

> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]]
> On Behalf Of Andrew Johnson
> Sent: Friday, June 27, 2008 4:35 PM
> To: EPICS core-talk
> Subject: Plans and Dates for 3.14.10 Release
> 
> This is probably the worst time of year to try and coordinate a release,
> what
> with people taking time off work and going away, but I'm going to try
> anyway
> since we really need to get R3.14.10 out soon — it's well over 500 days
> since
> we last produced a 3.14 release, which is the longest period between major
> base releases ever.
> 
> Our ideal timescale for a final release date would be in early-middle
> August
> [the sounds of screaming horror come through the ether...] which is at the
> start of a 6.5 week APS shutdown.  If we don't make this date, Eric is
> likely
> to sulk.  Personally I'll be on vacation the week of July 14-18th, and for
> a
> few days at the beginning of August.
> 
> Working backwards from Release Approval on August 8th and assuming we find
> no
> show-stopping bugs, that puts 3.14.10-RC1 on August 1st and 3.14.10-pre1 on
> July 25th. I'd like some lee-way for finding and fixing issues though, so
> I'd
> prefer to bring that forward another week which hits my vacation week.
> That
> leaves just 2 weeks to finish up any remaining commits and bug fixes [more
> screaming is heard, louder this time].
> 
> How does this hit the other core developers, do we have any chance of
> making
> this timescale?  I still have a number of uncommitted changes in my working
> area (64-bit IOC, startup/shutdown + redundancy hooks) and submitted
> patches
> for errlog and devLib that I haven't applied yet.
> 
> If you think this message applies to you, please discuss...
> 
> - Andrew
> --
> Talk is cheap. Show me the code. -- Linus Torvalds

Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System