V1.3 RC testing

Testing of v1.3 Release Candidate(s)

You can install the RC with e.g.:

pip install astropy==1.3rc1

and test it with:

python -c "import astropy; astropy.test(remote_data=True)"

Or if you don't want to install (and/or want to test the docs files, too), you can do:

pip install -d . astropy==1.3rc1
tar xzf astropy-1.3rc1.tar.gz
cd astropy-1.3rc1
python setup.py test --remote-data

This will produce a long sequence of dots and letters indicating the test is running. At the end you should see something like

=========== 8949 passed, 115 skipped, 73 xfailed, 1 xpassed, 2 pytest-warnings in 476.85 seconds ===========

If this shows no failures, you can report it in the table below as a "success", otherwise put it as a "failure" (and if need be you can create an issue in the astropy issue tracker).

If you are in a hurry and already have the astropy git source set up, you can also just checkout the v1.3rc1 tag. Don't forget to fetch the latest changes first (git fetch --all). Note, though, that the pip (or downloading the pypi tarball and installing it) is preferred, because that's closer to what users will do.

RC1

Failures

Name (real or Github)	Python version(s)	OS	Issue(s)	Notes	Release Critical
Brigitta Sipocz (@bsipocz)	2.7.8 (self built)	RHEL 5.11	#5602
olebole	2.7.10, 3.5	Debian Sid (Stretch)	#5601	MIPS,Sparc CPU
olebole	2.7.10, 3.5	Debian Sid (Stretch)	#5460

Successes

Name (real or Github)	Python version(s)	OS	Issue(s)	Notes
eteq	2.7.11, 3.5.2	macOS 11 (El Capitan)
Brigitta Sipocz (@bsipocz)	3.5.2 (conda)	RHEL 5.11
larrybradley	2.7.12, 3.5.2	OSX 11 (El Capitan)
lauralwatkins	2.7.12, 3.5.2	OSX 10 (Yosemite)