Re: release plane for 4.0 -- Re: GP_ISVAR, GP_FIT_ERRVARS

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

On Thursday 19 February 2004 07:01 am, Petr Mikulik wrote:
> > > > 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?

I only said April because I was responding to a proposal that mentioned
April.  I agree with you that sooner is better.







>
> 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.
>
> ---
> Petr Mikulik
>
>
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