release plane for 4.0 -- Re: GP_ISVAR, GP_FIT_ERRVARS

[Petr M. <mi...@ph...>]

> > > 3.8k ASAP, and a release of 4.0 on, say, Easter (mid-April).
> >
> >  No objections. Altough I think code freezes have never worked around
> > here ...
>
> 	6) release the 4.0 version in April

Why should we wait till April? Do you think that anybody will take care
about looking to the frozen code of gnuplot for months?

As I've noticed, there were no (serious) bug reports for some months.

I've noticed people (including some developers!) get very frustrated that
gnuplot gets releases in timescale of several years. That really makes
people disappointed. Let's don't do that.


> The 1000th changelog entry for the trunk!  If that's not something to
> be celebrated by a release, what could be?

I propose to release 4.0 on February 27.
Or even better on Sunday February 29, which better follows gnuplot's release
timescales :-))


With this strict deadline, people (at least on this list) will be strongly
motivated to make fastly all tests. I fear that for April, nobody will have
enough motivation.

And release gnuplot-3.8k today.

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Petr Mikulik