On 2015-08-01 12:52-0700 Alan W. Irwin wrote:

> Just to keep you guys informed, it looks doubtful that I will be able
> to finish the release process today, but I hope to finish that tomorrow.

Update: one of the first essential items is to update comprehensive
test results on our Wiki so our release notes can just refer to that
wiki item, but SF has just deployed a new markdown editor that 
completely sucks/is unusable for complex wiki pages like ours.  That
"completely sucks/unusable" phrase is not hyperbole.  For example, the
cursor position is misidentified so if you try to insert a line of
text at what appears to be the cursor position it actually appears 5
lines higher in the editing GUI for the tables part of the page I was
attempting to edit.  (This occurs for both konqueror and iceweasel
(the Debian form of firefox.) Elsewhere in that page the cursor is
correctly identified.  So nothing is predictable.  Similarly, any
attempt to delete stuff ends up deleting the wrong stuff.  And the
usual normal cut and paste with the mouse no longer works.  I have
been fighting with these issues for several hours today and have got
precisely nowhere.

Anyhow, I am hoping for a quick response from SF staff concerning how
they can make it possible to update complex wiki pages like ours again
(e.g., by giving us the option to use the old editor that actually
works), but if I don't get that quick response, I guess as a temporary
measure, I could put all the markdown format for tables filled with
recent comprehensive test reports from Arjen, Greg, and myself
directly into our release notes and copy those markdown data to our
wiki later when it is finally possible to do so.

Alan
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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).
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