On May 20, 2007, at 8:35 PM, Alan W. Irwin wrote: > 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.
Ok. 5.7.4 at the end of July, 5.8.0 at the end of August. -Hazen ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
