I added that milestone to some of the current docs MRs but it’s probably too tight, so I suggest to remove - it probably doesn’t matter much what’s in the tar all for docs so safer to have the current docs. We could have a patch release which updates the docs for release, once we’re happy with the docs build on main. Satish Balay via petsc-dev <[email protected]> schrieb am So. 28. März 2021 um 20:58:

Perhaps I should not have kept a weekend deadline here.

Lets use 'freeze': 'March 29 (Mon) 5PM CST' - but retain the release date 'March 30 5PM EST (we have March 31 - if needed)

Satish

On Sun, 28 Mar 2021, Satish Balay via petsc-dev wrote:

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A reminder!

Satish

On Tue, 9 Mar 2021, Satish Balay via petsc-dev wrote:

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All,

Its time for another PETSc release - due end of March.

For this release [3.15], will work with the following dates:

- feature freeze: March 28 say 5PM EST - release: March 30 say 5PM EST

Merges after freeze should contain only fixes that would normally be acceptable to release workflow.

I've created a new milestone 'v3.15-release'. So if you are working on a MR with the goal of merging before release - its best to use this tag with the MR.

And it would be good to avoid merging large changes at the last minute. And not have merge requests stuck in need of reviews, testing and other necessary tasks.

And I would think the testing/CI resources would get stressed in this timeframe - so it would be good to use them judiciously if possible.

- if there are failures in stage-2 or 3 - and its no longer necessary to complete all the jobs - one can 'cancel' the pipeline. - if a fix needs to be tested - one can first test with only the failed jobs (if this is known) - before doing a full test pipeline. i.e: - use the automatically started and paused 'merge-request' pipeline (or start new 'web' pipeline, and cancel it immediately) - now toggle only the jobs that need to be run - [on success of the selected jobs] if one wants to run the full pipeleine - click 'retry' - and the remaining canceled jobs should now get scheduled.

Thanks, Satish