From: Hazen B. <hba...@ma...> - 2010-04-28 19:52:06
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Hezekiah M. Carty wrote: > On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 9:48 PM, Hazen Babcock <hba...@ma...> wrote: >> Alan W. Irwin wrote: >>> On 2009-11-07 16:30-0500 Hazen Babcock wrote: >>> >>>> What are the remaining projects for the next release? >>>> >>>> On my list I have: >>>> (1) Expand the plot settings covered by plget & plset. >>>> (2) (a) OS-X and (b) Windows backends for the cairo driver. >>> (3) Complete test_interactive target. >>> >>> (4) Complete time stuff. >> Since I have accomplished part of 2b in the last 4 months I feel it is >> time to bring up the subject of another release :). Seriously though it >> has been more than 6 months since the last release, lots of improvements >> have been made in the meantime and I'm starting to feel like a release >> is overdue. I'll throw out the end of April as a target date. Thoughts? >> > > The end of April sounds good to me. I would like to complete the > OCaml work that I have postponed for several months now, as well as > complete the work I have done on getting universal coordinate > transform support up and running in PLplot, at least to the point > where initial support can be included in a release. Based on some off-list conversations about what people want to get done before the next release, it looks like the (tentative) release date is going to get pushed back a few more weeks to mid-May or early June. > I expect that we will need another development release (5.9.7) after > this to allow time for the recent changes to settle out, particularly > with the large API additions which have occurred since 5.9.5. Agreed. We should probably stick mostly to bug fixes and clean-up until after we get through 5.9.7 (August?) and 5.10.0 (October?). So testing, documentation and updating the Wiki would all be good ideas :). -Hazen |