On Wed, Jun 13, 2018 at 6:28 PM, Nathan Goldbaum <nathan12...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Chuck, > > Are you planning on doing an rc release this time? I think the NumPy 1.14 > release was unusually bumpy and part of that was the lack of an rc. One > example: importing h5py caused a warning under numpy 1.14 and an h5py > release didn’t come out with a workaround or fix for a couple months. There > was also an issue with array printing that caused problems in yt (although > both yt and NumPy quickly did bugfix releases that fixed that). > > I guess 1.14 was particularly noisy, but still I’d really appreciate > having a prerelease version to test against and some time to report issues > with the prerelease so numpy and other projects can implement workarounds > as needed without doing a release that might potentially break real users > who happen to install right after numpy 1.x.0 comes out. > There was a 1.14.0rc1 <https://github.com/numpy/numpy/releases/tag/v1.14.0rc1>. I was too quick for the full release, just waited three weeks, so maybe four this time. Too few people actually test the candidates and give feedback, so I tend to regard the *.*.0 releases as the true rc :) Chuck
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