[Difx-users] Plans for DiFX 2.9 release and 2025 workshop {External}

[Adam Deller]

Hi DiFX users,

It has been quite some time since the last release but we are now very
close to finalising and releasing DiFX 2.9.0. Shaoguang Guo is presently
visiting me at Swinburne and we are putting in an effort over this week to
finalise all the change logs, harmonising the 2.9 alpha branch with main,
and plan to tag the release as soon as that is done (in the next week or
so). To the best of our knowledge all relevant testing has been completed,
so if anyone is still running tests on the 2.9.0a branch and wants to hold
the release until that is completed, please let me know.  Going forward we
will try to return to a ~6 monthly update cycle, as it was quite a long
time between major releases this time around.

I will be starting a few discussions on the DiFX github repo related to
benchmarking and release processes, so please follow the repo at
https://github.com/difx/difx if you want to stay up to date with those
discussions. One of those will be regarding benchmarking, as there is
renewed interest in having some up-to-date performance benchmarks of
single-server performance to compare recent CPU models.

The other question for the user group regards a workshop for 2025. At this
point, although we'd explored some options, no location or date had been
set for a DiFX users and developers meeting, and 2025 is rapidly running
out of road! Shaoguang has raised the possibility of hosting a meeting in
Shanghai in November 2025 - *can I please ask that you respond if you are
1) interested and likely able to attend this location and time, or 2)
interested in attending a users/developers workshop but would be unable to
make that location or time.*

Thanks, and stay tuned for a 2.9.0 release announcement soon!

Cheers,
Adam


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Swinburne University of Technology
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