Planning for 2.24 - halfway between releases of Math/Stan/Cmdstan/Stanc3

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Yes, we definitely should not make a habit of this.

I like the 48hours to release plan! Although, like Sebastian said, the release date will not be set in stone ever as a discovered bug during the feature freeze postpones the release.

Based on Sebastians comment I will make the necessary posts on the repos.

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@rok_cesnovar what’s the order of things for the feature freeze? I can do math release notes.

@mitzimorris can we render the 2_24 docs at https://mc-stan.org/docs/2_24/functions-reference/index.html even if the main docs page doesn’t point at them (so that the ODE docs can be somewhere accessible for the feature freeze)?

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sure, we can render the 2_24 docs. 2_24 docs are there now: https://mc-stan.org/docs/2_24/functions-reference/index.html

I would be happy to write the CmdStan release notes.

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The release notes for Math will get auto-generated from the sections in PRs comments. What we need to do is do a read through of the generated stuff and copy-edit. Do you want to volunteer for that? :)

Will post the generated stuff to the Math issue today, though for the RC “release” we only need a list of features for the end-user of cmdstan. Proper release notes will be needed next week.

I will handle stan/stanc3 release notes.

EDIT:
Stan notes: https://github.com/stan-dev/stan/issues/2941
Stanc3 notes: https://github.com/stan-dev/stanc3/issues/628#issuecomment-660874260

So if you two handle cmdstan and math we are all set.

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Some stats on this latest release period (not including anything merged today). Not sure any of this should be added in the release notes, but it might interest someone. All data is for this release period (from the 23rd of April):

146 merged PRs across the 4 repositories, which comes down to ~1.6 PR merged per day.

repo merged PRs
math 67
stan 11
cmdstan 17
stanc3 51

17 code contributors all together.

adamhaber, andrjohns , bbbales2 , Bob_Carpenter , charlesm93 , Christopher22 , dirmeier, HaoZeke, IvanYashchuk, mitzimorris, nhuurre, peterwicksstringfield, rok-cesnovar, rybern, serban-nicusor-toptal, SteveBronder, t4c1

We had 3 new code contributors in this release period:
Haozeke, Christopher22 and dirmeier

There are also a few devs that contributed with their review comments on the merged PRs, which is of course equally important. So also thanks to:

wds15, vianeylb, betanalpha, bgoodri, mcol, seantalts, ahartikainen

I also have some per-contributor stats, but not sure that means anything to anyone.

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