On 2006-11-21 22:10-0500 Hazen Babcock wrote: > > On Nov 21, 2006, at 12:12 AM, Alan W. Irwin wrote: > >> Hi Hazen (I will keep this part off list since that is what you did): > > Sorry, I think that I forgot to hit reply all. > >> Let's leave it like this: I would prefer calling the next file release >> plplot-5.7.1.tar.gz so there is no ambiguity about what >> plplot-5.7.0.tar.gz >> file has been downloaded by our users when they come to us asking for help >> with their problems, but it is up to you. > > On further consideration, I agree with you about this.
Good. > I'll create a 5.7.1 > release this weekend and I'll also bump the patch number as I should have > done before to reflect the internal changes. Now, should this one be 5.7.1 > RC1? It seems that the threat of an eminent release has inspired a number of > last minute changes. Are we confident enough in CVS head to go straight to a > final release? Or should we be more conservative? I guess if we release 3 > versions in the 3 weeks people will be impressed with our productivity :). I would be fine either with our without release candidates for these development releases. On the one hand, these releases are considered to be somewhat experimental in nature, and everybody in the FOSS world understands about lots of releases if they become required because of somebody's mistake right before the release. On the other hand, a more conservative procedure of having RC's one week before each development release would probably raise the quality of such releases and reduce the number of such releases. But there are costs involved as well. It takes some effort on your part to create file releases and some effort for our many users to download, build, and test them. So its a judgement call about the cost versus the benefits which I leave to you. Regardless of your decision on RC's for the development releases, I think a release candidate would be an excellent idea just before our next stable release (5.8.0) just to make sure we haven't done anything stupid right before our stable release. 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); PLplot scientific plotting software package (plplot.org); the Yorick front-end to PLplot (yplot.sf.net); the Loads of Linux Links project (loll.sf.net); and the Linux Brochure Project (lbproject.sf.net). __________________________ Linux-powered Science __________________________ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Plplot-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/plplot-devel
