On Thu, Dec 20, 2018 at 9:56 AM E. Madison Bray <erik.m.b...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Thu, Dec 20, 2018 at 12:12 AM Dima Pasechnik <dimp...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > I`ve just given #22626 (port gap/libgap to GAP 4.10) a positive > > review (Erik deserves a round of applause for this great work!) > > And the associated #26856 (gap_packages/database) will be up for > > reviewing very soon, > > I`m just running one last round of tests; that is, it should be possible to > > get > > GAP 4.10 ready on the 20.12. > > I'm going to have a closer look now at your gap_packages ticket today > so we can hopefully get that finished up. > > > How about trying to get this into 8.5? (or perhaps 8.5.1?) > > 8.5 would be my preference (not "8.5.1" as this is a major change). > But I'm also happy to release an 8.6 soon if we can do that instead. > Volker had already mentioned a December 1st cut-off date for major > updates to 8.5 which we weren't able to make, and that's fine. Just > as long as the next release comes out quickly and prioritizes the GAP > update (and perhaps nothing else major, though if there are bug fixes > to include that's fine too).
On the other hand it's a lot of work to make an 8.5 release, and then follow up with an 8.6 release just a couple weeks later, so if I were release manager I would personally be inclined to wait. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.