Hi John & All > The only short term pressure for a point release is coming from > debian, because they are having some trouble with our last point > release. Because debian is an important platform, I want to get a > point release out that satisfies their problems ASAP, but not before > we are ready. Whether this is next week or next month or next year > will depend on whether the code is ready (I hear echos of Orson Welles > in the old Paul Masson commercial, "We will sell no wine, before it's > time"). > > In the case of the contouring enhancements, they're not ready, so > we'll wait. In the situation where debian or some other important > vendor has a freeze deadline with a critical problem that needs > fixing, we can always do a branch off the last point release that > fixes just the required bugs. Sandro can keep us appraised if such a > deadline is approaching for 0.98.2.
First of all, I'd like to thank you all for the huge support you're giving back to Debian. About deadlines, just yesterday it was announced[1] that general freeze will happen the next weekend, so it's rather soon :) We are using the policy "We release when we are ready" and I think it's a good one, so once you're confident with a new point version, release :) ; then it will be my responsibility to praise release managers to include the new version in Debian ;) Cheers, Sandro [1] http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2008/07/msg00005.html -- Sandro Tosi (aka morph, Morpheus, matrixhasu) My website: http://matrixhasu.altervista.org/ Me at Debian: http://wiki.debian.org/SandroTosi ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-devel mailing list Matplotlib-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-devel
