Tom Schoonjans made some good points on plplot-general about officially releasing timely fixes for PLplot rather than expecting packagers and others to dig those out of git, and I also feel it is critical to give our users good access to the recent big improvements in both our Fortran and Tcl bindings. So to answer these concerns my plan is to release PLplot-5.12.0 on ********** December 17th **********. That is roughly the last release date possible in December without intruding on Christmas holiday time, and I don't want to put off this release until January for the above reasons.
Note, I don't want the release any sooner than the above date because there are a lot of (fairly minor) topics I am still working on that I would like to get into this release. Therefore, I plan to continue working on those topics for the rest of this week and the next one and declare a soft freeze (where only minor bug fixing and documentation improvements should occur after that freeze date until the release) on ********** December 3rd **********. That freeze date should give us two weeks for extensive testing of PLplot (and fixing all bugs that are turned up by such testing) on all platforms accessible to PLplot developers and users. (Note, I do plan to ask our users on plplot-general to help with testing during those two critical weeks on the platforms accessible to them.) Please speak out if either of the two dates above need an adjustment from your perspective. For example, another freeze date alternative could be December 10th (which still gives us the minimum one week of time we need for testing). But that freeze date would be completely inflexible, and I would prefer a more flexible freeze date (to accommodate last-minute requests to change it for those developers who discover they need a few more days to get their topics merged) which is why I have suggested December 3rd as the freeze date. If nobody has any suggestions for changes in the above two critical dates by (say) late Wednesday I will follow up by announcing the above two critical dates on PLplot-general. Alan (your friendly release manager). __________________________ 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 __________________________ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Plplot-devel mailing list Plplot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/plplot-devel
