I think we are in pretty good shape for finishing all our projects for this release cycle by either the December 14th or December 21st. Note those potential deadlines are 3+ or 4+ weeks away. Please let me know which release date you prefer. Currently, I am leaning towards the 14th because I think we can easily make that deadline, and I would like to get this release out of the way well before Christmas celebrations take priority.
My own development work for this release cycle is largely completed. I am finished with the Tcl/Tk changes I have been working on, and also I have completed the f77 extirpation. I have some comprehensive testing I plan to do for those changes, and there may be some issues turned up by that testing which I will have to deal with, but I don't think it will take more than a day or so. I also do have a reorganization and renaming of the build_projects project planned, but that should only take a few days at most. The other projects that I am aware of are Arjen's on-going testing and debugging effort for Tcl/Tk on Windows and Linux; Andrew's finalization of the C code for example 22, our joint propagation (once that C version is finalized) of those example 22 changes to the various languages, and Hez's long-planned finishing off of the last plcolorbar propagation for OCaml. The Tcl/Tk issues that Arjen is working on are all important but not release critical which gives him a chance to finish off as many issues as he can get to before the release without affecting the timing of that release. But honestly everyone else's projects that are referred to above should only take a few hours. So I suggest you complete your projects now rather waiting to do them in a last-minute rush. Note the plan is to follow the 5.9.11 development release by a short "debugging-only" release cycle leading up to our next stable release, 5.10.0. So assuming this development release goes well in December, I might be making that long-overdue stable release by the middle of January. 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 __________________________ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Shape the Mobile Experience: Free Subscription Software experts and developers: Be at the forefront of tech innovation. Intel(R) Software Adrenaline delivers strategic insight and game-changing conversations that shape the rapidly evolving mobile landscape. Sign up now. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=63431311&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Plplot-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/plplot-devel
