OK I guess I missed that announcement. I wouldn’t mind more than one email with a reminder to test.
On Wed, Jun 13, 2018 at 7:42 PM Charles R Harris <charlesr.har...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 > _______________________________________________ > NumPy-Discussion mailing list > NumPy-Discussion@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion >
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