I think everyone here will agree that the release of plplot-5.9.10 is
long overdue (plplot-5.9.9 was released almost two years ago).  To
address that issue does anybody have strong objections (typically due
to work in progress that cannot be completed by that date) to
releasing 5.9.10 on September 28th?

I have heard off-list from Hez that he should be able to bring the
OCaml examples 16 and 33 (the ones that use plcolorbar) into
consistency with the C examples on that kind of time scale.  I am
currently addressing the issue of the pllegend and plcolorbar doxygen
and docbook documentation, and should be done with that small
documentation project by tomorrow.  The only other issue I am aware of
that potentially could affect the release schedule is the plcolorbar
propagation effort required in the Ada case which is complicated by
Jerry being out of contact for the next week and his known
difficulties with actually building PLplot these days on his Mac OS X
platform. However, if it turns out that Jerry cannot meet a September
28th deadline, then I feel we should not delay the release for the Ada
plcolorbar issues and instead make a subsequent release a month or so
after he has dealt with the Ada plcolorbar issues.

One remaining practical issue is we don't have an official release
manager at the moment.  I have attempted to contact Andrew off list
about the possibility of him taking on that role but he has not
responded yet.  But if September 28th is not convenient for him, and
nobody else wants to take on this responsibility, then I am willing to
take on that release manager role myself (likely at the expense of
effort spent testing of PLplot on the Wine platform). So unless
someone actually does have some PLplot development on the go that
justifies delaying the release, I think you can pretty much count on
September 28th being the release date.

Alan
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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); the Time
Ephemerides project (timeephem.sf.net); PLplot scientific plotting
software package (plplot.sf.net); the libLASi project
(unifont.org/lasi); the Loads of Linux Links project (loll.sf.net);
and the Linux Brochure Project (lbproject.sf.net).
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Linux-powered Science
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