investigate 1.1 branch

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Discovered during code review #247, discussed with @jbphet on Zoom.

The currently published version is 1.0.6.

A 1.1 branch was created on 3/15/19 by @chrisklus. It has an RC test issue, phetsims/qa#298, for 1.1.0-rc.2. And 1.1.0-rc.1 apparent doesn't exist because of a build server error. It appears that no sim-specific commits have been made on 1.1 since 3/15/19. It's not clear whether all commits made it into 1.0 and master.

Since so much has changed since 3/15/19, and since the next release will include brand=phet-io, the release process will likely be resumed on a new 1.2 branch, and 1.1 will be abandoned.

The QA issue for 1.1.0-rc.2 testing should probably be closed, see phetsims/qa#298 (comment).

[samreid]

Do we have a way to tell the maintenance release process to ignore abandoned branches?

[jbphet]

@chrisklus and I talked and recalled what this branch was about and why it stalled. There were several issues that we wanted to address that involved some significant changes to the code and some changes to the functionality. All in all, the changes were significant enough that we decided to create a new minor release rather than a maintenance release. There was one outstanding issue that was assigned to me (#238) that has been low priority, and blocked the release from getting done. Since the priority of work on this sim has now increased, I think we should probably fix the issue, finish the 1.1 release, and then do the work on master to add phet-io. That seems to me to be the best way to avoid any future confusion about this.

[chrisklus]

I think we should probably fix the issue, finish the 1.1 release, and then do the work on master to add phet-io. That seems to me to be the best way to avoid any future confusion about this.

Sounds great to me.

[jbphet]

Assigning the @chrisklus to close if and when he does that 1.1 release.

[chrisklus]

We ended up abandoning 1.1 and have taken RC SHAs for 1.2, closing.