@Phil: how is it going with your bug fix? The sooner the better, please, so we know what sort of fix is required, and whether we should put it in the release or wait until post release. In light of your progress do the plans below make sense?
On 2015-07-21 10:22-0700 Alan W. Irwin wrote: > IMPORTANT. I am declaring now that a complete freeze on any pushes to > our SF repository will be in effect once SF staff restores our > repository from their backups and makes it available to us. The reason > for this freeze is I need some time to check that restored repository > against my local repository using similar extensive checking > procedures that I originally used when converting from svn to git. According to <http://sourceforge.net/blog/> git service is back up so I plan to start the detailed checking process early tomorrow (Thursday) consisting of comparison of the working directory of my old repository at various key release tags with a freshly cloned repository. I also plan to do a detailed comparison of log results between the two repositories to make sure those are identical. Once that checking process is completed I will let you all know here and at that point set the release date for about a week later. So if I can get that detailed checking process done in a timely manner (i.e. by this weekend) with no issues showing up, then I will plan to release 5.11.1 on August 1st (i.e., 10 days from now). And from the date when the repository check is completed to the release date ~1 week later, we will move from the above hard freeze to a slightly slushy freeze more typical of the last week before a release. That slightly slushy freeze will still allow substantial epa_build and documentation updates, and also no-brainer bug fixes to our code with no side effects. However, more complicated bug fixes to our code should be discussed/negotiated here before pushing, and, of course, merging of major code updates to master are not allowed (since those are not allowed in any case after the first month of a release cycle). 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 __________________________ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Plplot-devel mailing list Plplot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/plplot-devel
