Hi Hez:
I assume you have been paying close attention to this thread because
of its release-sensitive subject line and because I did get your
off-list e-mail a month ago saying you wanted to finish off the ocaml
plcolorbar changes by the release deadline. Note, however, that that
deadline is effectively late tomorrow (Thursday) when the freeze
starts as noted earlier in this thread. For more details about that
slightly fuzzy freeze deadline, read on. But in any case the
important message here is if you cannot meet that deadline, the
release is going to go ahead as planned on Saturday, and you will have
the opportunity to make your plcolorbar changes in the next release
cycle which should be considerably shorter than this last release
cycle.
The rest of this post is directed to you and everybody else on this
mailing list who is interested in this release.
On 2013-09-24 09:29-0700 Alan W. Irwin wrote:
> ocaml
> Missing examples:
> Differing postscript output : 16 33
> Missing stdout :
> Differing stdout:
>
Thanks to revision 12530 from Andrew, D is now fine, and the above
OCaml issues are the only plcolorbar propagation issues that are left.
By the way, what the freeze starting late Thursday night means in
practical terms is everybody should ask the release manager's (i.e.
my) permission before you do any svn commits. I will probably say
"yes" if the change is well tested by you, _and_ I haven't started
testing on Friday. But once that testing starts, I will likely say
"no" since any commits in the middle of the testing period gives me
two nasty choices; restart the tests to include that commit in the
testing or release something that is not completely tested.
The status of my own pre-freeze ToDo list is everything is completed
except for a few final changes to the website (fixing a final few dead
links and figuring out the PHP code to only publish a subset of the
example 33 pages to the website). Prior to the freeze I may also get
a chance to improve build_projects (notably accessing the svn trunk
version of PLplot using an svn client on both Linux and Wine) to make
it more convenient to build and test the lite version of PLplot on
both Linux and Wine.
I plan to go through most parts of the release process detailed in
README.Release_Manager_Cookbook up to generating the release tarball
by early on Friday. That should allow me to get all special release
commits (e.g., version bumps, ChangeLog, etc.) done for this release
early that day and thus allow the testers (including me) to test the
final release product on that day. If all tests pass, I might even be
inspired to generate the final tarball, release announcement, news
item, website files, etc., late on Friday and then proceed with the
actual release early on Saturday which would require just uploading
all the required files that have been prepared on my computer to
SourceForge.
Of course, all these timing details go right out the window if the
tests turn up any issues, but assuming we don't encounter such issues,
I think I should be able to stick to this tentative schedule for the
release. Anyhow, continue to watch this thread for any changes in
this preliminary schedule as this release process unfolds.
Alan
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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
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and the Linux Brochure Project (lbproject.sf.net).
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