On 2013-10-01 23:21+0100 Andrew Ross wrote: > On Monday 30 Sep 2013 23:40:25 Alan W. Irwin wrote: >> I still need to create a news item and do other publicity, and I also >> need to refine my notes on this release process in >> README.Release_Manager_Cookbook. But otherwise, the 5.9.10 release >> process is completed and the commit freeze is lifted. >> >> Let the 5.9.11 release cycle begin! >> > > Alan, > > Thank you (as ever) for all your work and rigorous testing of the release.
You are welcome. And thank you for all your contributions to this release cycle. > Let's hope we can make them a little more regular again. I agree. For a while there I was beginning to wonder if I would ever be able to finish this release as I kept running into one issue after another due to bit rot having set in during the two years of changes since our last release and due to troubles due to the change of release manager such as the file permissions issue at SourceForge. Nevertheless, I am certainly game to be the release manager for at least one more release since it should be a lot easier for a short release cycle (==> less bit rot) and because I took care to document my newly gained experience in README.Release_Manager_Cookbook which I can refer to next time. And I would also like to take this opportunity to thank Hazen one more time for all the PLplot releases he managed over the years; I now have a much better appreciation of how much work he went through on our behalf. :-) One of my limited goals for this release cycle is to disable the old SGML/DSSL Docbook documentation generation methods completely and move to the UTF-8 xmlto and dblatex --backend=xetex methods I discussed before for our DocBook documentation generation. I am already pretty close to being done with this project. I have already introduced some "interesting" UTF-8 strings into the DocBook source (not committed yet), and the resulting info and html results already look good with no build-system changes at all (except for a onsgmls fix I committed earlier today so that the validate target still works despite these UTF-8 strings in our DocBook source). And my previous experience shows that dblatex --backend=xetex (not available indirectly via xmlto) should work to produce good pdf results for the case where arbitrary UTF-8 strings are in the DocBook source. So with luck I will be able to finish off this project by tomorrow. A more open-ended goal for me for this release cycle is also to push ahead with build_projects to the point where it is easy to use by others. I also have heard off-list from Hez that some unexpected real-life issues kept him from finishing off the the plcolorbar propagation issues for OCaml for 5.9.10, but he fully intends to finish off that work for this release cycle. And I am hoping that Arjen continues his extraordinarily useful testing of PLplot on various Windows platforms (including testing build_projects on all Windows platforms accessible to him once that project is more mature). Anyhow, my feeling is all these goals are reasonably straightforward so there is a good chance we can release 5.9.11 just a few months from now. 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=60134791&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Plplot-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/plplot-devel
