On 2008-01-29 22:54-0500 Hezekiah M. Carty wrote: > On Jan 29, 2008 8:18 PM, Alan W. Irwin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On 2008-01-27 20:26-0500 Hazen Babcock wrote: >> >>> >>> Hello, >>> >>> Any objections to development release 5.9.0 coming out on the weekend >>> of February 9-10th? >> >> Just to let the others here know, that suggested time for the next release >> arose out of off-list discussions between Hazen, Andrew (Ross), and me. >> Hazen, since nobody has objected let's finalize on that date for the >> release. > > Will this 5.9.0 release mark a freeze of new features for the 5.10 > release? I would like to try to integrate the OCaml PLplot bindings > in to the official distribution if possible. Would they have to be in > before the 5.9.0 release, or could they be merged in after?
Good question. This will be the first development release in a series that will come out every few months or so leading up to the next stable release at some unspecified date in the future (probably at minimum a year from our last stable release [5.8.0] which occurred a few months ago). In many ways the distinction between our stable releases and development releases is fairly artificial since most of the changes we do are additions (such as new bindings) which do not disturb what worked before. So we have no need for feature freezes at the present time, and you are welcome to donate your work to the PLplot software project (under the LGPL) whenever you feel ready. Of course, earlier in the series of development releases that lead up to the stable release is better than later. In sum, our release procedure is quite informal, but it seems to work OK for us. Alan __________________________ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.uvic.ca). Programming affiliations with the FreeEOS equation-of-state implementation for stellar interiors (freeeos.sf.net); PLplot scientific plotting software package (plplot.org); the libLASi project (unifont.org/lasi); the Loads of Linux Links project (loll.sf.net); and the Linux Brochure Project (lbproject.sf.net). __________________________ Linux-powered Science __________________________ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Plplot-devel mailing list Plplot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/plplot-devel
