Re: What's left for a 4.2 release?

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Hans-Bernhard Br=F6ker wrote:
> Ethan Merritt wrote:
>
> [... an excellent summary...]
>
> Well, guys, I'm afraid you may have missed the single most important=20
> ingredient: somebody who has the time and nerve to actually process the=
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> release.
>
> I for one am in the process of changing jobs and towns right now,=20
> implying no internet access for elongated periods, and not terribly muc=
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> free time to spend on gnuplot.  I.e. unless we can find somebody else t=
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> actually do it, nothing will happen for at least about one more month.
>
> Any takers?
Let's share the work as much as possible then. Last time we talked about=20
a release on this list (in last september), the idea was :

    - work on the patches/feature requests that are worth it for 4.2,=20
are then declare the feature freeze, and sort/solve reported bugs
       =3D> I think Ethan is taking care of that with his summary, we can=
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help by testing (the external X window patch for example)

    - make a development snapshot

Hans-Bernhard, can you make a list of other things that has to be done=20
for a release ? You seem to mean that a lot of work is necessary. What=20
do you mean ? Appropriate building of binary snapshots ? Review of=20
README and other text files ?

Timoth=E9e