Alan W. Irwin wrote: > On 2010-09-24 12:45-0400 Hazen Babcock wrote: > >> Alan W. Irwin wrote: >>> [...]Is the 5.9.7 development release still on for next >>> weekend? >> >> Yep, assuming that there are no objections. > > Hi Hazen: > > For those who might be doing some last-minute documentation (probably > not me since I hope to finish the pllegend docbook documentation > today) what day this weekend and what approximate time of day do you > plan to start the release process?
I'm planning on doing this tomorrow (Saturday, October 2nd) morning (EST), but see discussion below. > I was about to give you a shopping list of on-going development that > would justify making the next release cycle our normal longer > development cycle. For example, we need to work on plcolorbar to > complement pllegend. Also, the misaligned legend results for example > 26 show a lot of work needs to be done so that plstrl gives the > correct string-size results for unicode-aware device drivers. > > However, when I checked records, it turns out our last stable release > (5.8.0) was almost three years ago! Thus, we have been putting off > the release of 5.10.0 for much too long a time (probably mostly due to > my requests for more development release cycles). But, of course, > on-going development can always be used to put off stable releases so > if we don't do a stable release soon, we may never do so. Furthermore, > I think we could benefit from a short stable release cycle where we > concentrated exclusively on testing, bug fixing, API propagation, and > documentation and where the developers made a commitment not to commit > any new core development work to svn trunk during that short cycle. > > The first obvious question, Hazen, concerning this possibility is > whether or not you can commit to a short release cycle (say with a > release of 5.10.0 two or three weeks from the release of 5.9.7 this > weekend)? That would probably be possible, but.. > Assuming that short time scale is possible for the next release, what > do the other developers here think about this possibility? Would you > be against it (because you have a lot you want to develop and waiting > through a stable release cycle disrupts your plans); go along with it > without participating because of other time-commitments during the > next few weeks (obviously no shame is attached to that because of the > extremely short notice); or would you be for it implying you could > contribute some testing, bug fixing, etc., help during that time? I am against it, unless we can get pllegend (and plsmema) propogated to all the languages before then (as you mentioned below). Also I feel that the pllegend API should be stable, and I don't have the sense that it is right now. At the rate these things seem to happen I would guess this will take a month or more. Then there is the question of whether we'd like one more development release to make sure we are comfortable with pllegend prior to a stable release. I'd propose either: (1) Another dev release 1-2 months after 5.9.7, followed shortly there after by 5.10.0. (2) Hold off on 5.9.7 for another 1-2 months. In either case we would attempt to restrict our activities between the dev release and the stable release as you suggest. > I would be for it since I could use a week or two to properly test > PLplot using MinGW under wine, and I hope others would be willing to > participate as well (say by propagating pllegend to various languages > and updating examples 4 and 26 in those languages earlier in the > release cycle and/or running scripts/comprehensive_test.sh for their > platform and reporting the results on our Wiki later in the release > cycle). -Hazen ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Start uncovering the many advantages of virtual appliances and start using them to simplify application deployment and accelerate your shift to cloud computing. http://p.sf.net/sfu/novell-sfdev2dev _______________________________________________ Plplot-devel mailing list Plplot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/plplot-devel
