Hazen's comments and questions about the changes to the release procedure due to our switch to subversion have got me thinking about how we get from here to our next stable release, 5.8.0.
My own feeling is we should do at least one more development release, 5.7.4, in a month or two. That gives us a chance to work out any bugs in the release process itself caused by the switch to subversion. It also gives us a chance to finish up a number of different development/documentation projects. These projects include the Ada interface API changes (Jerry Bauck), the Ada examples (a number of us are waiting to help with those once the Ada API is finalized), fortran 95 documentation (Arjen Markus), a family of Cairo-based device drivers (Hazen Babcock), and a new windows device driver (Jim Dishaw). Please let me know if there are any other on-going projects out there that have a chance to be finished before the 5.7.4 release. I think you should consider the 5.7.4 release deadline an important one for development since 5.7.4 is likely to be our last development release before we make our 5.8.0 stable release. Furthermore, I propose we release 5.8.0 relatively soon after 5.7.4. The interval should be long enough to give 5.7.4 users a chance to report bugs, but should be short enough that we do not start adding a lot of new features beyond what is already in 5.7.4. I think an interval of about a month between 5.7.4 and 5.8.0 would be about right. Hazen, what do you think of this proposed schedule for the release of 5.7.4 and 5.8.0? Please modify it to conform with your own personal time constraints since a lot of that proposed rough schedule depends on you both as our release manager and also as developer. 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 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 __________________________ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ Plplot-devel mailing list Plplot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/plplot-devel
