[Gate-users] Towards Gate 9.0

[Mathieu DUPONT]

Hi David

> We are currently preparing the next Gate release, version 9.0, based on the current Geant4 release 10.6. This version includes a > bunch of novelties compared to the previous 8.2 version (hence the jump in version number).


I understand your arguments for the version jump, but don't you think that we should reserve the major version change for releases which break the backward compatibility? In my mind, that's what such a jump suggests. Maybe some people will be afraid to upgrade to the new version because of this. While this new version of GATE only consists of additions of new functionalities.


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De: "David Sarrut" <David.Sarrut at creatis.insa-lyon.fr>
À: "gate-users" <gate-users at lists.opengatecollaboration.org>
Envoyé: Mercredi 19 Février 2020 08:28:07
Objet: [Gate-users] Towards Gate 9.0

Dear all, 

We are currently preparing the next Gate release, version 9.0, based on the current Geant4 release 10.6. This version includes a bunch of novelties compared to the previous 8.2 version (hence the jump in version number). 

Please, if you want to include new feature or bug correction in this version, submit your PullRequest (PR) asap . We usually ask to have one PR with source code only in the main Gate repository, another PR with one example in the GateContrib repository, and some documentation changes via [ https://opengate.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ | readthedocs ] . In any case, do not hesitate to contact us for any help, we are happy to help ! 

For all : please we need help to perform tests. Gate is a large beast and we still do not have a proper unit test system (working on it). This is simple: download and compile the branch "develop" and test it with your own simulation to see if anything is fine. Please, report us is anything seems strange. On our side, we have some benchmarks but they do not cover all the parts of Gate. [ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continuous_integration | Continuous integration ] on github via Azure is currently being implemented (thanks to Thomas!) and will be ready soon. 
In advance, many many thanks to all recent contributors: Fatima, Anders, Mathieu, Thomas, David, Marta, Loic, Sam, Christian, Mateuz etc ... I am sure I forget people, sorry ... I will properly update the list of contributors in the following weeks :) 

The ETA for the next release is early March. 
David 

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