Alan, Sorry for coming to this rather late - I've been tied up with other things. I entirely support you in pressing for a release. This would fix a number of outstanding issues with the Debian packages and bring us back upto date. September 28th seems a reasonable timeframe. I'm sorry I probably won't have time to act as release manager this time round, but I'll try to crack on with more testing and in particular resolve the outstanding issues with the D language and plcolorbar. This just leaves Ada and Ocaml in need of bringing back into line. If Jerry struggles to fit in fixing Ada I'll try and take a look at that too. I also want to give Alan's recent documentation changes a thorough test. We need the release notes bring up to date, so if everyone could contribute to that it would be good.
Thanks Alan for pushing us all into this. Andrew On Thursday 29 Aug 2013 09:38:18 Alan W. Irwin wrote: > 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 > __________________________ > 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). > __________________________ > > Linux-powered Science > __________________________ > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > -- Learn the latest--Visual Studio 2012, SharePoint 2013, SQL 2012, more! > Discover the easy way to master current and previous Microsoft technologies > and advance your career. Get an incredible 1,500+ hours of step-by-step > tutorial videos with LearnDevNow. Subscribe today and save! > http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=58040911&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk > _______________________________________________ > Plplot-devel mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/plplot-devel ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Learn the latest--Visual Studio 2012, SharePoint 2013, SQL 2012, more! Discover the easy way to master current and previous Microsoft technologies and advance your career. Get an incredible 1,500+ hours of step-by-step tutorial videos with LearnDevNow. Subscribe today and save! http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=58041391&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Plplot-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/plplot-devel
