To all PLplot developers: In my role as PLplot release manager, I am now declaring a soft freeze for pushes to origin master which will continue until the release is completed next Saturday (Febrary 28th). So please continue your development on your own personal PLplot topic branches, but only push to origin master those commits that are a simple bug fix, an update of release scripts, or a documentation update.
Note, if Jim comes through with a patch series containing plmeta/plrender functionality (but not new plbuf functionality), I might be tempted to push that to origin master as discussed previously if it passes superficial build tests. (Since the new plmeta/plrender will be disabled by default and declared as experimental in the release notes such commits will not affect most users of the new release and will also not affect our testing which typically is only for the default version of everything). What I plan to do for the rest of this week is continue to test and help with the fixes for wxwidgets and plbuf that Phil and Jim are working on, do all the preliminary release work mentioned in README.Release_Manager_Cookbook including updating our release scripts to handle the git case, and also do the following: 1. Do a comprehensive test on Linux following what is documented in <http://sourceforge.net/p/plplot/wiki/Testing_PLplot/>. I also strongly urge everyone else here with access to a suitable test platform (modern Linux distros, ancient "enterprise class" Linux distros if you use epa_build, all modern Mac OS X versions, and all Cygwin, MingGW/MSYS, and MinGW-w64/MSYS2 versions of Windows) to follow those same wiki directions. 2. Sort out any regressions all our joint tests reveal. 3. Initiate a MinGW/MSYS/Wine comprehensive test (and then wait three days for those results to complete if all continues to be well on that platform). 4. Sort out any regressions that test reveals. 5. On Saturday (the 28th) finish the release process. 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); the Time Ephemerides project (timeephem.sf.net); PLplot scientific plotting software package (plplot.sf.net); 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 __________________________ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download BIRT iHub F-Type - The Free Enterprise-Grade BIRT Server from Actuate! Instantly Supercharge Your Business Reports and Dashboards with Interactivity, Sharing, Native Excel Exports, App Integration & more Get technology previously reserved for billion-dollar corporations, FREE http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=190641631&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Plplot-devel mailing list Plplot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/plplot-devel
