On 2009-08-23 20:47-0400 Hazen Babcock wrote: > > We have 2-3 weeks until our tentative early September release date. I > believe that everything that we wanted in 5.9.5 is in? Is there anything > outstanding besides the tweaks to the color palette handling?
Here are some comments on the present development issues I am aware of: * The release showstopper color palette initialization issue has now been fixed (see my last post to the list). * You have just fixed the superscript/subscript issue for the cairo devices, and I don't think any other devices have such issues other than the font size issue for the pdf device. I believe the pdf device is still considered to be experimental so it would be nice to get that issue fixed before the release, but it is not essential. * Werner has stated he will be working on device drivers (presumably pdf and wxwidgets) but I don't know how much time he has for that at the moment or how far he has gotten. * Hez mentioned the off-screen rendering patch in response to your post but didn't give an estimate of how long that would take. If that turns out to be long, I don't think we should delay the release for it. * Alban plans to make animated rendering faster for -dev qtwidget and do a final fix of the command-line options for qt_example the next opportunity he has to work on qt. But that next opportunity is apparently several weeks from now which is clearly too late for this release. Thus, his planned qt work will presumably be in the release after this present release. * This week I do have some plans to extend my install tree testing to the build tree, but that is just a matter of convenience and I presume that will not introduce or find any release showstopper issues. * I also plan to document the new build system for the installed examples, but such work should not introduce any release showstopper issues. * I have decided to put off the libqsastime enhancements I have discussed before until after this present release since those enhancements are pretty tricky (both in understanding the various time transformations that are implied and actually doing the C coding that will be required to implement them). Thus, the effort may take several weeks, and I certainly don't want to do it in a rush to meet a release deadline since that is a perfect recipe for introducing bugs. We certainly have more than enough improvements in svn trunk to justify a development release now without waiting for further development to be completed. Tomorrow I plan to do comprehensive tests of all three build modes (shared libraries + dynamic devices, shared libraries + static devices, and static libraries and devices) for the Debian stable platform accessible to me, and I suggest others do that as well on all platforms that are accessible to them. If those tests show no showstopper issues, then I am tentatively thinking that we could do the release next weekend (i.e., either Saturday, September 1st or Sunday September 2nd). Hazen, in case a release next weekend will not disrupt anyone's development plans, would it be convenient for you to release on one of those days? Of course, if it is not convenient for you or somebody prefers two weekends from now, that would be okay with me as well. However, I prefer we not let the timing slide to three weekends from now since I like to stick as closely as possible to release deadlines once they have been stated, and September 15th/16th barely qualifies (if at all) as "early September". 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 __________________________ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july _______________________________________________ Plplot-devel mailing list Plplot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/plplot-devel
