On 2018-03-23 15:29-0400 David Bergman wrote:
Thanks for the tip. If I do get that far I will post it. Do I need to be a developer on this project? Or should I just email out to the group?
Attaching a (compressed) patch to a post to this mailing list would be fine. And if/when that time comes I would encourage you to generate that patch with "git format-patch" since that makes it easier to give you git credit for your work. But if you don't want to use that git command a patch generated any other way would also be acceptable. And to answer your first question, if someone shows sustained interest in PLplot development by submitting good patches over a significant number of months, and they let us know they hope to continue to actively develop PLplot, then we generally invite that person to be a core PLplot developer which gives them several project-related capabilities (e.g., push capability for our git repository, the ability to add to our wiki, etc.). But even if you are not a core PLplot developer, you can help us a lot by sending in patches for single-issue improvements (such as discussed above) or by doing comprehensive testing of PLplot. That latter simply consists of running scripts/comprehensive_test.sh for the HEAD of the git master branch for PLplot for some (or ideally all) of the platforms you have access to. That script runs all our tests for all our major build-tree and install-tree configurations, and assembles the results into a report tarball. If you send that report tarball to us (as an attachment to a post to this list) it is easy for us to analyze it for any PLplot problems on the platforms where you are running the script and also give you credit for running that test in our wiki with an entry in the comprehensive testing report table in <https://sourceforge.net/p/plplot/wiki/Testing_PLplot/#Testing%20Reports>. To learn more about that script run scripts/comprehensive_test.sh --help 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 __________________________ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ Plplot-general mailing list Plplot-general@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/plplot-general
