My plans to actuate the freeze for merging large changes to master, testing for a month or so and releasing before Christmas went up in smoke because I was dealing with a number of issues such as a sick computer and an extremely interesting and distracting baseball season (for Blue Jays fans like me who suddenly had an interesting team to watch after 20 years of mediocrity). But my computer is fine again and the baseball season is finished (unfortunately without Jays winning the World series, "but maybe next year") so I am now working on PLplot again. Therefore, it is time to discuss once again when we should make that freeze and release.
@Phil, Jim, and Arjen: This discussion is primarily addressed to you guys because you have wxwidgets fixes and extensions (Phil), new Windows device and plbuf and plmeta upgrades (Jim), and a new Fortran interface (Arjen) that are all "works in process". And I would like to encourage all of you to finish off those efforts rather than having them drag on much longer. >From my recent comprehensive testing results on Debian Jessie, I feel the tip of the PLplot git master branch is in fairly good shape (aside from the wxwidgets issues I mentioned), but I don't feel it is urgent to immediately release the current set of bug fixes that have been developed so far in this release cycle, and ideally I would like to see a lot more merged to master before we release it. So my inclination is to delay the release substantially (say until some time in the first quarter next year) to give one of you/all of you the chance to greatly improve wxwidgets (Phil) or merge something new that is significant (Jim and Arjen) to master. That delay might also allow me to land a major fill fix and a major upgrade to epa_build that I have been contemplating. Anyhow, your input on the ideal release date (and freeze date roughly one month before that release date) from the perspective of your current PLplot development plans would be most welcome. 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
