On 2010-10-01 19:12-0400 Hazen Babcock wrote: >> 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.
Hi Hazen: Thanks for your thoughts on this issue. (1) is actually fine with me. Your point about how long it will take to propagate pllegend is a good one, and I do have a lot of other things I would like to work on as well. Finally, even though it appears our next release cycle will be a developmental one, I still encourage developers to do some activities associated with a stable release cycle as well such as testing, bug fixing, and documentation since that should help us to shorten the subsequent stable release cycle. > (2) Hold off on 5.9.7 for another 1-2 months. Definitely not (2). So please go ahead on Sunday (anticipating your next post) with the release of 5.9.7. 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 __________________________ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
