Reactants, Products and Leftovers - publish 1.3

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Added to worklist by @kathy-phet on 2/23/2023.

A big unknown is the Game screen. A prerequisite is a more general "Game design" task. That said...

The estimate that I provided for my part of this was:

(1) Convert to TypeScript (5500 lines) = 12 hours
(2) Dynamic locale = 6 hours
(3) PhET-iO instrumentation for static elements = 25 hours
(4) Convert dynamic elements to static = 15 hours. View elements are created on demand in the Sandwiches and Molecules screens. Rewrite so that they are created at startup.
(5) PhET-iO instrumentation for dynamic elements = 30 hours. A set of 5 challenges is created each time you select a game level. This will require PhetioGroup, custom IOTypes, etc.

TOTAL = 88 hours

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In today's general planning meeting, @kathy-phet said that the target publication date is "July".

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There is no longer a goal to publish this sim in July 2023, so unassigning.

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The 1.2 branch of this sim was created on 8/14/2018. So this sim would be a good candidate for publishing "as is" (no new features) when QA has down time.

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The plan for the 1.3 release has changed. Rather than a PhET-iO release, it will be a PhET brand release. This will make MRs easier. And it will pick up these standard features:

• TypeScript implementation
• Dynami locale/layout
• Preferences dialog
• UI sound

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• Dev Test: Reactants, Products and Leftovers 1.3.0-dev.6 qa#1159

Added to QA Pipeline and published dev version, 10/28/24.
Dev-test completed 10/30/24.

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• RC Test: Reactants, Products and Leftovers 1.3.0-rc.1 qa#1160

Added to QA Pipeline 10/30/24.
RC test completed 11/4/24.

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• RC Spot-Check Test: Reactants, Products and Leftovers 1.3.0-rc.2 qa#1162

Added to QA Pipeline 11/4/24.
RC test completed 11/4/24.
Ready to publish.

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1.3.0 was published on 11/4/24.

Announcement to Slack#general:

Reactants, Products and Leftovers 1.3.0 has been published. The 1.2 branch was over 6 years old, so the purpose of this release was to make MRs less painful, and pick up some of the features that are common to newer sims: dynamic locale, Preferences, UI sound, and pan-and-zoom. And it’s implemented in TypeScript. It does not support PhET-iO, alternative input, or description.