Re: 4.2 Release plans - Last chance for comments

[Ethan A M. <merritt@u.washington.edu>]

> Ethan Merritt wrote:
> > Unless there are objections, I propose to change the PATCHLEVEL
> > and other embedded names in the 4.2 CVS tree to be 4.2 patchlevel 0,
> > and prepare an official distribution source package this weekend.

Done. The release announcement is attached.

The 4.2 tarball is on SourceForge in the download files section,
along with the official release announcement and the pdf documentation.
Email went out automatically to anyone who registered their interest
with the package monitoring system, but I have not yet sent an announcement
anywhere else.

> Hans-Bernhard Br=C3=B6ker wrote
> > I would put the announcement on Freshmeat and as a News entry on our=20
> > SourceForge.net pages.  Ethan should post the announcement to our Usene=
t=20
> > newsgroup, and I assume Petr will forward it to the Octave crowd.

I'll wait a day or two, then post the announcement to the newsgroup and
to Linux Weekly News.  Jon Corbet wrote a nice little editorial review on
LWN  when 4.0 came out; maybe he'll do it again.

I'm CC'ing Per Persson in case he wants to post an announcement for the
Mac crowd.  Or perhaps that should wait until a Mac binary is available?

Also Shigeharu Takeno, who may want to post the release announcement to
a Japanese forum.[*]

	Ethan


[*] You may be interested to learn that Google Trends reports that the=20
highest concentration of search queries about gnuplot is from Japan:
   http://www.google.com/trends?q=3Dgnuplot

Note that this is "gnuplot queries / all queries from this origin" not
"raw number of gnuplot queries". Otherwise the appearance of Iceland
as the #2 query origin would be inexplicable :-)


=2D-=20
Ethan A Merritt
Biomolecular Structure Center
University of Washington, Seattle 98195-7742