Hi Alan Those dates look good to me, and I will investigate my 3 thread issues (wxWidgets, Qt, error messages ) well before the freezing date -Pedro
----- Original Message ----- From: "Alan W. Irwin" <ir...@beluga.phys.uvic.ca> To: "PLplot development list" <Plplot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net> Sent: Tuesday, November 22, 2016 7:50 PM Subject: [Plplot-devel] Soft freeze on December 3rd and release on December17th? > Tom Schoonjans made some good points on plplot-general about > officially releasing timely fixes for PLplot rather than expecting > packagers and others to dig those out of git, and I also feel it is > critical to give our users good access to the recent big improvements > in both our Fortran and Tcl bindings. So to answer these concerns my > plan is to release PLplot-5.12.0 on ********** December 17th **********. > That is roughly the last release date possible in December without > intruding on Christmas holiday time, and I don't want to put off this > release until January for the above reasons. > > Note, I don't want the release any sooner than the above date because > there are a lot of (fairly minor) topics I am still working on that I > would like to get into this release. Therefore, I plan to continue > working on those topics for the rest of this week and the next one and > declare a soft freeze (where only minor bug fixing and documentation > improvements should occur after that freeze date until the release) on > ********** December 3rd **********. That freeze date should give us > two weeks for extensive testing of PLplot (and fixing all bugs that > are turned up by such testing) on all platforms accessible to PLplot > developers and users. (Note, I do plan to ask our users on > plplot-general to help with testing during those two critical weeks on > the platforms accessible to them.) > > Please speak out if either of the two dates above need an adjustment > from your perspective. For example, another freeze date alternative > could be December 10th (which still gives us the minimum one week of > time we need for testing). But that freeze date would be completely > inflexible, and I would prefer a more flexible freeze date (to > accommodate last-minute requests to change it for those developers who > discover they need a few more days to get their topics merged) which > is why I have suggested December 3rd as the freeze date. > > If nobody has any suggestions for changes in the above two critical > dates by (say) late Wednesday I will follow up by announcing the above > two critical dates on PLplot-general. > > Alan (your friendly release manager). > __________________________ > 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 > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Plplot-devel mailing list Plplot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/plplot-devel
