Preparing a new puf.csv file about taxdata HOT 7 CLOSED

The request that requires nu18 was for the new capability to be on TaxBrain by the 20th. It seems very unlikely that that could be accomplished if we bundle #93 with all of these other changes. Even if it could be accomplished by rushing, I don't think we should rush the adoption of the new puf.csv file.

That said, it only makes sense not to bundle #93 if we think it could be on TaxBrain by (or near) the 20th if we proceed with it first. Unless there is a shortcut I am missing, that would require:

1. Merging #93 here.
2. Releasing a new taxpuf
3. Merging a forthcoming PR to tax-calculator
4. Releasing a new taxcalc (0.9.0, probably)
5. Creating a new conda package
6. Testing the new taxpuf and new taxcalc against other projects
7. Fixing outstanding compatibility issues w/ latest version of taxcalc and any new ones.
8. Deploying to TaxBrain.

I am going to ask the requester whether the 20th was a hard deadline or a soft deadline. If it is a hard deadline, I think we should assume we can't make it. If it is a soft deadline, I think we should try to make it and potentially miss by a few days.

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@MattHJensen said:

That said, it only makes sense not to bundle #93 if we think it could be on TaxBrain by (or near) the 20th.

How likely is that? TaxBrain is still using 0.8.3 from May 1st, rather than 0.8.4 or the most recent 0.8.5 from June 8th.

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How likely is that?

I will get in touch with @PeterDSteinberg as well as the enhancement requester to see whether he and other webapp-public contributors have bandwidth later this week / early next week to work on deployment

TaxBrain is still using 0.8.3 from May 1st, rather than 0.8.4 or the most recent 0.8.5 from June 8th.

We can skip over taxcalc releases for TaxBrain, so the fact that we are a few releases behind shouldn't slow us down.

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I will get in touch with @PeterDSteinberg as well as the enhancement requester to see whether he and other webapp-public contributors have bandwidth later this week / early next week to work on deployment

@PeterDSteinberg thinks next Tuesday is a reasonable goal if we have the taxcalc and taxpuf releases by eod Thursday.

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@MattHJensen said:

TaxBrain is still using 0.8.3 from May 1st, rather than 0.8.4 or the most recent 0.8.5 from June 8th.

We can skip over taxcalc releases for TaxBrain, so the fact that we are a few releases behind shouldn't slow us down.

I interpreted TaxBrain being stuck on 0.8.3 as an indication that the code was being changed so much (for example, webapp-public pull request 556) that it was not possible to upgrade TaxBrain to 0.8.4 or 0.8.5. Otherwise, why weren't those upgrades done?

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I interpreted TaxBrain being stuck on 0.8.3 as an indication that the code was being changed so much (for example, webapp-public pull request 556) that it was not possible to upgrade TaxBrain to 0.8.4 or 0.8.5.

That's not quite right. More accurately, the pause in releases was to give the webapp-public team time to make progress on, for example, 556, rather than dealing with the releases. We did attempt a 0.8.4 release, but we thought PSLmodels/Tax-Calculator#1367 was blocking it and that it would make more sense to wait until you were back from vacation. Anyways, the short answer to why we haven't upgraded to 0.8.4 and 0.8.5 is: resource budgeting.

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Closing issue #95 as it has been replaced by issue #96.

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