Re: 2.7.2 for the New Year?

Jeff,

This makes sense to remove tags. Certainly there was optimistic estimation
of available resources on my part, based on what I was then doing — I went
from 50% (or more) availability 3 years ago, then 20% 2 years ago but
combined with a heavy part-time teaching load, to basically none at this
moment. (But I hope to have some chance to contribute by this summer!)

We have a lot of great work in 2.7.2, so it's important to get this out. My
basic feeling is that the web site cleanup, especially moving to some sort
of ReadTheDocs approach, is the big thing that needs to be done. Most
likely everything else outstanding can go into a later release.

- Jim


On Fri, Mar 2, 2018 at 9:14 AM, Jeff Allen <[email protected]> wrote:

> I'm continuing the triage of issues, slowly. Given our rate of work and
> jointly-expressed desire for a release, I find the only rational course is
> to take off nearly all the 2.7.2 tags, unless it would be harmful to
> release with that issue. (I might add some on that basis.) I'll do my best
> to follow the comments on each issue first.
>
> I'll get this wrong many times, so if I've taken 2.7.2 off where you can
> see Jython wouldn't be viable with that issue outstanding, please argue it
> on the issue. Also, a good patch or commit is close to an irrefutable
> argument for inclusion. Anyone is free to to fix something just because
> they think it worthwhile or fun to do: we're all volunteers.
>
> That said, we have a fair number of issues related to sockets/SSL that I
> find difficult to assess accurately and could not easily work on. If your
> skills and interest run that way, they might be good choices.
>
> Some projects tag issues as "suitable for beginners". We don't have such a
> tag, but as I go through the issues, I find Jim has often done the like in
> a comment or given a hint towards the likely solution, which is useful for
> the rest of us.
>
> Other thoughts in line ...
>
> Jeff
>
> On 26/02/2018 03:00, [email protected] wrote:
>
>> Hi Jeff - some comments inline:
>>
>> On Sun, Feb 25, 2018 at 12:49 AM, Jeff Allen <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> It's still the New Year :)
>>>
>>> We currently have 85 open bugs tagged Milestone 2.7.2, and about 250
>>> others.
>>> (20 or so are tagged 2.7.1 or 2.7.0, but I think that's mostly a
>>> misunderstanding at the time they were raised.) It's hard for me to say
>>> which should be show-stoppers.
>>>
>>> I thought I'd at least read them all. So far I've got 2 categories:
>>> "fairly
>>> sure I can close" and "that's not simple".
>>>
>>> I think we should have tagged as Milestone 2.7.2 only those things we
>>> have a
>>> serious intention to fix by the end of 2.7.2b, and everything else
>>> decisively put off. Knowledgeable contributions to this process would be
>>> welcome.
>>>
>> That sounds right to me, we can put others into a 2.7.3 Milestone perhaps.
>>
> No milestones are available for selection in the tracker beyond 2.7.2, so
> we can't express that idea at present. Also, I think it means very little
> to add 2.7.3 until we start to plan it. Anything not tagged is a candidate
> for 2.7.3 according to priority (or fancy). Priority and severity are
> useful at all times, I think.
>
> A 2.7.3 milestone could be in the database ready, however. Oddly, I can
> report an error against 2.7.3 if I want, but not against 2.7.2.
>
> I think (below) Frank bids a GitHub-based website as part of the 2.7.2,
>>> which I think is highly desirable for communication reasons.
>>>
>> Yes I need to look at the logistics of getting a github based website
>> up and running. I'll try to find some time to look into that soonish.
>>
> That would be great. And we need the basic content, of course, before
> throwing the switch. I'm going to focus on the issues triage.
>
> Jeff
>
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