[Rivet] Rivet 2.0.0b1 and YODA 1.0.0 (?) releases... any objections?

[Andy Buckley]

No objection heard... proceeding with the release now!

On 11/04/13 16:10, Andy Buckley wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I think we now have fairly stable and problem free (ha!) release
> candidates for YODA and Rivet2. The last few commits fix the building on
> lxplus again, and I think all is well. So are there any objections to
> releasing these ~ today?
> 
> I think we've established that this will be Rivet 2.0.0b1, since some
> AIDA -> YODA conversion TODOs remain, and we want to do the full
> regression accuracy check before making the proper 2.0.0 release (and
> hence abandoning the 1.x series ~ completely).  But we had decided
> whether this should be a beta release or full release of YODA, and what
> version number.
> 
> I'm in favour of not agonising over this too much: several of us have
> been using YODA in the current state for quite a while without problems,
> hence I think it should just be a straight 1.0.0: the > 1 major version
> and lack of "alpha/beta" status inspire a bit of confidence in its
> readiness. The mechanisms for run merging, ROOT format conversion and so
> on are all there, it's just a few user-convenience scripts that are
> missing... and more fancy-but-not-crucial ideas can just wait for 1.1,
> 1.2, etc. Like Rivet it may be version 2 before we finally manage to
> implement our "vision" of all the stuff that YODA should be able to do :-)
> 
> Again, any objection to this?
> 
> If I hear no complaints, I'll tag these and send another announcement
> out tonight.
> 
> Andy
> 


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