Re: [Plplot-devel] Should the release of 5.9.11 be on December 14th or 21st?

[Andrew R. <and...@us...>]

On Wednesday 20 Nov 2013 21:57:09 Alan W. Irwin wrote:
> I think we are in pretty good shape for finishing all our projects for
> this release cycle by either the December 14th or December 21st.  Note
> those potential deadlines are 3+ or 4+ weeks away.  Please let me know
> which release date you prefer. Currently, I am leaning towards the
> 14th because I think we can easily make that deadline, and I would
> like to get this release out of the way well before Christmas
> celebrations take priority.
> 
> My own development work for this release cycle is largely completed. I
> am finished with the Tcl/Tk changes I have been working on, and also I
> have completed the f77 extirpation. I have some comprehensive testing
> I plan to do for those changes, and there may be some issues turned up
> by that testing which I will have to deal with, but I don't think it
> will take more than a day or so.  I also do have a reorganization and
> renaming of the build_projects project planned, but that should only
> take a few days at most.
> 
> The other projects that I am aware of are Arjen's on-going testing and
> debugging effort for Tcl/Tk on Windows and Linux; Andrew's
> finalization of the C code for example 22, our joint propagation (once
> that C version is finalized) of those example 22 changes to the
> various languages, and Hez's long-planned finishing off of the last
> plcolorbar propagation for OCaml.  The Tcl/Tk issues that Arjen is
> working on are all important but not release critical which gives him
> a chance to finish off as many issues as he can get to before the
> release without affecting the timing of that release.  But honestly
> everyone else's projects that are referred to above should only take a
> few hours. So I suggest you complete your projects now rather waiting
> to do them in a last-minute rush.
> 
> Note the plan is to follow the 5.9.11 development release by a short
> "debugging-only" release cycle leading up to our next stable release,
> 5.10.0. So assuming this development release goes well in December, I
> might be making that long-overdue stable release by the middle of
> January.

Alan,

I'd also prefer 14th December as it gives us a bit of room for slippage before 
Christmas. I intend doing a little more work on plvect / plsvect than just 
updating example 22, but I don't envisage that being a major piece of work.

The other outstanding issues are dealing with subscript / superscript 
consistently between drivers. This is quite an important issue, but is going 
to require some work to properly implement in the plplot core so we probably 
shouldn't hold on for that.

Andrew