Hi Hez: I assume you have been paying close attention to this thread because of its release-sensitive subject line and because I did get your off-list e-mail a month ago saying you wanted to finish off the ocaml plcolorbar changes by the release deadline. Note, however, that that deadline is effectively late tomorrow (Thursday) when the freeze starts as noted earlier in this thread. For more details about that slightly fuzzy freeze deadline, read on. But in any case the important message here is if you cannot meet that deadline, the release is going to go ahead as planned on Saturday, and you will have the opportunity to make your plcolorbar changes in the next release cycle which should be considerably shorter than this last release cycle.
The rest of this post is directed to you and everybody else on this mailing list who is interested in this release. On 2013-09-24 09:29-0700 Alan W. Irwin wrote: > ocaml > Missing examples : > Differing postscript output : 16 33 > Missing stdout : > Differing stdout : > Thanks to revision 12530 from Andrew, D is now fine, and the above OCaml issues are the only plcolorbar propagation issues that are left. By the way, what the freeze starting late Thursday night means in practical terms is everybody should ask the release manager's (i.e. my) permission before you do any svn commits. I will probably say "yes" if the change is well tested by you, _and_ I haven't started testing on Friday. But once that testing starts, I will likely say "no" since any commits in the middle of the testing period gives me two nasty choices; restart the tests to include that commit in the testing or release something that is not completely tested. The status of my own pre-freeze ToDo list is everything is completed except for a few final changes to the website (fixing a final few dead links and figuring out the PHP code to only publish a subset of the example 33 pages to the website). Prior to the freeze I may also get a chance to improve build_projects (notably accessing the svn trunk version of PLplot using an svn client on both Linux and Wine) to make it more convenient to build and test the lite version of PLplot on both Linux and Wine. I plan to go through most parts of the release process detailed in README.Release_Manager_Cookbook up to generating the release tarball by early on Friday. That should allow me to get all special release commits (e.g., version bumps, ChangeLog, etc.) done for this release early that day and thus allow the testers (including me) to test the final release product on that day. If all tests pass, I might even be inspired to generate the final tarball, release announcement, news item, website files, etc., late on Friday and then proceed with the actual release early on Saturday which would require just uploading all the required files that have been prepared on my computer to SourceForge. Of course, all these timing details go right out the window if the tests turn up any issues, but assuming we don't encounter such issues, I think I should be able to stick to this tentative schedule for the release. Anyhow, continue to watch this thread for any changes in this preliminary schedule as this release process unfolds. 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 __________________________ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ October Webinars: Code for Performance Free Intel webinars can help you accelerate application performance. Explore tips for MPI, OpenMP, advanced profiling, and more. Get the most from the latest Intel processors and coprocessors. See abstracts and register > http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=60133471&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Plplot-devel mailing list Plplot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/plplot-devel
