[Users] Maintaining old releases

[Erik Schnetter]

I would support only one release because we have limited manpower.

Regarding SimFactory: We could add instructions to the release note
for obtaining the development version of SimFactory together with a
release of the Einstein Toolkit. Preferable would probably be
backporting of option lists, triggered by some automated tests that
indicate failure when a system configuration changes.

-erik

On Sat, Apr 23, 2011 at 10:32 AM, Ian Hinder <ian.hinder at aei.mpg.de> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> The Einstein Toolkit has releases every six months or so which are tested and tagged so that people can download a working version.  However, some things change (for example machine configurations and directory locations) which mean that the old releases don't work any more.
>
> How should we solve this problem?  One proposal would be to check every commit and decide if it needs to be backported to old releases.  This would only happen if the old release would no longer work without the commit (or maybe if the bug was very important?).  How many releases should be backported to?  Just the last one?
>
> This issue is probably only really applicable to simfactory machine configurations and optionlists.
>
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> Ian Hinder
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