[gmx-developers] release candidate for 5.1 imminent

[Mark Abraham]

Hi,

OK, that sounds like a bug ;-) Please rebase it

Mark

On Tue, Jun 30, 2015 at 10:46 PM Berk Hess <hess at kth.se> wrote:

>  Hi,
>
> There's one more change I/we forgot: https://gerrit.gromacs.org/#/c/4299/
> Currently g_wham is out of date because of the new pull setups and output
> formatting.
>
> Cheers,
> Berk
>
>
> On 06/30/2015 08:43 PM, Berk Hess wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> This looks like a case where the automation fails. I'll look into it.
>
> Berk
>
> On 06/30/2015 08:36 PM, Mark Abraham wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
>  An unexpected issue came up while running my automated tests of the RC
> tarball. Some newly-merged fatal errors that try to stop people using mdrun
> inefficiently sometimes cause the regressiontests to fail because they are
> defaulting to using too many threads. See https://pastee.org/jgyae
>
>  We do have machinery in regressiontests to automatically re-try the test
> with fewer threads/cores/whatever, but only in response to a set of known
> mdrun error outputs, so we could add this particular error to that set.
>
>  But in this case, the note on line 43 suggests we should improve the
> code leading to the fatal error so that we aren't subsequently
> double-crossing ourselves. What do you think, Berk?
>
>  (This didn't come up in per-commit testing because we limit those to
> small numbers of cores because there's normally multiple testing instances
> running simultaneously on the same machine. We can probably do a better job
> of this after 5.1, with a bunch of new hardware available.)
>
>  Mark
>
>  On Tue, Jun 30, 2015 at 4:28 PM Mark Abraham <mark.j.abraham at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>>  I'll ship release candidate for 5.1 today, once I've sorted out release
>> notes and put stuff on servers, etc.
>>
>>  The last possible behaviour changing patch for 5.1 is
>> https://gerrit.gromacs.org/4753, if someone's inspired to make it work
>> well. https://gerrit.gromacs.org/4272 is too late, even if someone's
>> inspired to split off part of it.
>>
>>  release-5-1 branch is active on git, gerrit and jenkins. Any remaining
>> bug-fix patches on master branch in gerrit may be cherry-picked to
>> release-5-1 branch (on gerrit or locally, as needed).
>>
>>  Business will proceed as usual in release-5-1 - such branches are open
>> only for all kinds of bug fixes, addition of docs, addition of tests, and
>> in all cases aimed at stability and correctness.
>>
>>  master branch is open for normal business, but people will probably be
>> a bit quiet there for a while ;-)
>>
>>  We are likely to issue a new 4.6.x some time soon, as we've had a
>> number of mdrun issues fixed. (There's one known bug outstanding to fix,
>> hopefully Michael has time real soon now.) Then release-4-6 branch will be
>> permanently closed. We cannot maintain three active release branches and a
>> development branch.
>>
>>  We'll do a 5.0.x soon also, then change the policy for release-5-0 to
>> "mdrun correctness bug fixes only" mode.
>>
>>  Thanks to all for the hard work!
>>
>>  Mark
>>
>
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