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DESC Cosmology Likelihood Framework
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Document the agree-upon release policy #227

Closed marcpaterno closed 1 year ago

marcpaterno commented 1 year ago

The release policy discussed and agreed upon at the recent MCP meeting should be written up.

tilmantroester commented 1 year ago

I think we should discuss if we want to restrict the requirement of backwards compatibility to a subset of the API. I could imagine that the API for top-level interactions (such as the creation and evaluation of likelihoods, statistics, and sources) remains stable but there are less guarantees for low-level functionality (for example, tracer objects).

marcpaterno commented 1 year ago

We agree with this idea. However, we think the code is not yet stable enough to clearly distinguish between the "external" and "internal" components. We propose to take this up again when the code has reached appropriate stability.