I have been making steady progress of my list of things I want to get done before PLplot-5.12.0 is released. Currently I am working on a big update to the DocBook documentation, and after that is completed and uploaded to the website, I plan to call for widespread testing of the new Fortran binding based on that updated documentation. However, there is still quite a few more topics on my list other than those two items so I plan to hold off declaring the freeze on merges of major topics to master until one month from now.
So this continues to be a good opportunity for the rest of you to merge in your own matured development topics to master. Here is a list of such topics that I am aware of where I believe there is still a chance for you to mature them during this release cycle rather than waiting until after the release of 5.12.0. Arjen: Tcl and Fortran fixes. Phil: wxwidgets bug fixes (especially concerning the severe inefficiency issue on Linux that I documented). Implementation of uniform reporting of memory allocation errors using exit (as a preliminary to the planned post-release implemention of a proper error report system). Once Phil has designed plmalloc, plcalloc, and plrealloc, I would be willing to help with the editing work of replacing all our current raw calls to malloc, calloc, and realloc with those PLplot equivalents which treat errors in a uniform way (currently with exit, but that should be convenient to update later once the proper error report system has been implemented). Jim: plmeta, plbuf, and wingcc fixes and implementation of his enhanced wingcc device. Jerry: fix Ada issues (the current PostScript differences for examples 8 and 19). Both Jim and Jerry have told me off-list that merging a git topic branch to master is still somewhat intimidating for them. To bypass that issue for now I suggest you both proceed by simply sending patches to this list. Patches formatted by "git format-patch" would be ideal (since that approach gives you automatic git credit for your work in a standard way), but ordinary patches are still acceptable as well if you are having trouble getting good results with the "git format-patch" command. Here is my proposed schedule for PLplot development leading up to the 5.12.0 release: * In the next few days: Call for widespread testing of the new Fortran binding. * In the next month: Lots of merges of matured work from all of us to the master branch. * 2016-04-09: Freeze for all but simple bug fixes and documentation updates. * In the month after the freeze date: Comprehensive testing on as many platforms as are accessible to us. * 2016-05-07: Release of PLplot-5.12.0. Please let me know if anyone has issues with this proposed schedule of events leading up to the release of PLplot-5.12.0. 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 __________________________ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Transform Data into Opportunity. Accelerate data analysis in your applications with Intel Data Analytics Acceleration Library. Click to learn more. http://makebettercode.com/inteldaal-eval _______________________________________________ Plplot-devel mailing list Plplot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/plplot-devel
