Re: [Plplot-general] New release?

2016-09-23 Thread Tom Schoonjans
Hi Alan, Releasing regularly new versions of the package is always good: it instills confidence in users that they are using a software package that is being actively developed and maintained. However, I do think that the approach of having bug-fix branches is essential when making regular

Re: [Plplot-general] New release?

2016-09-22 Thread Alan W. Irwin
Hi Tom: On 2016-09-22 13:54+0100 Tom Schoonjans wrote: > In the scenario I am suggesting, you would just end up with a new branch that starts at a tag and will contain bug fixes only. It will never need to be merged into master as it will consist of commits that were cherrypicked from master. >

Re: [Plplot-general] New release?

2016-09-22 Thread Alan W. Irwin
Hi Tom: At the end of this I have a question concerning using our preferred workflow at github (assuming someone wants to take responsibility for such a move). But first, you need some background. PLplot used CVS for a long time, then SVN for a long time, and then fairly recently made the

Re: [Plplot-general] New release?

2016-09-22 Thread Alan W. Irwin
Hi Tom: You have opened up a lot of interesting topics for discussion here which I am going to answer in separate e-mails with separate subject lines. In those separate replys I will also quote some key questions that Hazen has already asked. More later... Alan __ Alan

Re: [Plplot-general] New release?

2016-09-22 Thread Tom Schoonjans
Hello again, > We have been trying to maintain a linear history with git following the > process explained in the README.developers file. I think that the fork and > pull-request system would break this? Not necessarily, you can ask people submitting a PR that they rebase against master. You

Re: [Plplot-general] New release?

2016-09-21 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2016-09-21 14:22+0100 Tom Schoonjans wrote: > Hi all, > > > I was wondering if a new release of PLplot could be made soon, as the current > release does not build with CMake 3.6.x? The fix for it is currently in > master. > > Many thanks in advance and best regards, Sorry, but we are not