Here are my plans for the rest of this release cycle. (Please keep in mind that all times/dates mentioned are in Pacific time, UTC - 8:00.)
Until Thursday, December 12th (which is 10 days from now): Respond to any build-system issues you guys may find with the first round of platform testing I have requested now (ahem). Continue my reorganization of the epa_build project (see my forthcoming post about that). Thursday, December 12th: Start the release process. This includes version changes and local website generation and testing, I will probably also declare a freeze (i.e., ask you to seek my approval for any svn trunk commits) that evening or (very) early Friday morning. The point of this freeze is to avoid any last-minute changes in this release cycle that could cause more issues than they solve. So it is likely my approval for a commit will not be forthcoming unless it is a really simple and obvious bug fix that passes all comprehensive testing. So it would be best, for example, to get all propagation work (Andrew, Jerry, and Hez) and known Tcl and Tk bug fixing (Arjen) that you plan for this release cycle done before Thursday, December 12th. Friday, December 13th: I plan to do a last round of comprehensive testing this day, and I urge all of you to do the same to compare with the benchmark testing you are doing now. For the superstitious here, Friday the 13th is an excellent day to test software since anything that can go wrong will go wrong. :-) But seriously, I urge you to get your first round of comprehensive testing done now so we have time to deal with any bugs that are revealed. Then any further bugs revealed by the last round of testing on Friday the 13th should only be caused by the relatively small number of changes between now and then and should be easy to fix (i.e., by removing or improving on one of the changes between now and then). Saturday, December 14th, finish the release process (probably very early in the day, i.e., a hour or so after midnight) so roughly 24 hours after the freeze was declared late Thursday night or (very) early Friday morning. 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 __________________________ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Rapidly troubleshoot problems before they affect your business. Most IT organizations don't have a clear picture of how application performance affects their revenue. With AppDynamics, you get 100% visibility into your Java,.NET, & PHP application. Start your 15-day FREE TRIAL of AppDynamics Pro! http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=84349351&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Plplot-devel mailing list Plplot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/plplot-devel
