On 2015-02-06 14:29-0700 Orion Poplawski wrote: > On 02/06/2015 11:53 AM, Alan W. Irwin wrote: >> On 2015-02-06 08:39-0700 Orion Poplawski wrote: >> >>> And now that I actually check, I see that this is fixed in git. >> >> Hi Orion: >> >> Glad you found the solution in git master. >> >> My apologies as release manager that this fix and other improvements >> have stayed so long in git master without being released. That issue >> is going to be rectified on February 28th when git master will be >> released as PLplot-5.11.0. So if you (or others here) find any issues >> with git master, please let me know ASAP. > > Great, thanks. It would be helpful for my testing if git master started > calling itself 5.11.0.
Hi Orion: Most project's version number changes are done quite late in release cycles to allow flexibility in choosing the release number (say if an emergency release has to be made to fix an issue or a series of release candidate releases are issued at the end of the release cycle). This late in the release cycle we could be a bit flexible about that (since the time is long past for emergency fix releases for this release cycle and we don't plan any release candidates before the final release). However, if you don't mind I would prefer to stick to my original plan of updating all the version numbers and starting my own extensive testing of git master two weeks from now (the soft freeze date of February 21st where ideally the only commits to master after that until the release on February 28th should be bug fixes and documentation updates). In any case you should plan to do some extensive testing of PLplot after that soft freeze date because we still expect to see some substantial PLplot improvements (Phil and Jim's work) as well as API propagation efforts land on master before that soft freeze date. However, if it is not too inconvenient for you to work temporarily with a release version of 5.10.0 for git master, it would also be useful if you did at least one test before that soft freeze date in case we need additional time to fix any problems you might find due to your use of cutting-edge Fedora software for all the PLplot dependencies. 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 __________________________ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Dive into the World of Parallel Programming. The Go Parallel Website, sponsored by Intel and developed in partnership with Slashdot Media, is your hub for all things parallel software development, from weekly thought leadership blogs to news, videos, case studies, tutorials and more. Take a look and join the conversation now. http://goparallel.sourceforge.net/ _______________________________________________ Plplot-devel mailing list Plplot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/plplot-devel
